As far as I work out the version of the Dom0 linux kernel has to be 2.6.18. This is causing me a lot of problem, because the driver support in 2.6.18 is slowly falling behind, and I finding that more modern hardware isn''t supported by the 2.6.18 drivers. Is it possible to use a more recent version of the kernel for Dom0, or am I stuck with 2.6.18? Is there another way I can use more modern drivers? I''m particularly interested in the sky2 ethernet driver at the moment, but have had problem with other ethernet drivers and SATA drivers in the past. Are there any plans to upgrade xen to use a later kernel version for Dom0? thanks, Anthony Wright _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Stefan de Konink
2008-Aug-03 00:23 UTC
Re: [Xen-users] Getting a Dom0 Kernel Version > 2.6.18 ?
Anthony Wright schreef:> As far as I work out the version of the Dom0 linux kernel has to be > 2.6.18. This is causing me a lot of problem, because the driver support > in 2.6.18 is slowly falling behind, and I finding that more modern > hardware isn''t supported by the 2.6.18 drivers. > > Is it possible to use a more recent version of the kernel for Dom0, or > am I stuck with 2.6.18? > > Is there another way I can use more modern drivers? I''m particularly > interested in the sky2 ethernet driver at the moment, but have had > problem with other ethernet drivers and SATA drivers in the past. > > Are there any plans to upgrade xen to use a later kernel version for Dom0?Gentoo has a 2.6.21 kernel; that is rather stable. I also have major problems with the .18 release on Dell hardware. (Network device order issues etc. etc.) Stefan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
On 03/08/2008 00:41, Anthony Wright wrote:> As far as I work out the version of the Dom0 linux kernel has to be > 2.6.18.It''s quite understandable that a fast moving distro like Fedora has outstripped the pace of an individual project such as Xen, but when the forthcoming Debian lenny will "leapfrog" it too ...> Is there another way I can use more modern drivers? I''m particularly > interested in the sky2 ethernet driver at the moment,I recently installed a centos 5.2 kernel and found the SKY2 drver no longer recognised the NICs on a motherboard where 5.1 previously did, I looked through the git history and discovered there had been some problems with the driver and some PCIIDs were commented out, at this point RHEL5.2/Centos5.2 took their snapshot of backports, later the driver was re-enabled except in very specific circumstances, but these patches were too late for RHEL/Cenos. I installed the source for the kernel, and rebuilt the module with the PCIId re-enabled and no problems Alternatively you could try the out-of-tree SK98LIN driver, it did work for me, but I preferred to stay with the rebuilt kernel. _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users
Dustin Henning
2008-Aug-04 13:58 UTC
RE: [Xen-users] Getting a Dom0 Kernel Version > 2.6.18 ?
-----Original Message----- From: xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com [mailto:xen-users-bounces@lists.xensource.com] On Behalf Of Stefan de Konink Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 20:23 To: Anthony Wright Cc: xen-users@lists.xensource.com Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Getting a Dom0 Kernel Version > 2.6.18 ? Anthony Wright schreef:> As far as I work out the version of the Dom0 linux kernel has to be > 2.6.18. This is causing me a lot of problem, because the driver support > in 2.6.18 is slowly falling behind, and I finding that more modern > hardware isn''t supported by the 2.6.18 drivers. > > Is it possible to use a more recent version of the kernel for Dom0, or > am I stuck with 2.6.18? > > Is there another way I can use more modern drivers? I''m particularly > interested in the sky2 ethernet driver at the moment, but have had > problem with other ethernet drivers and SATA drivers in the past. > > Are there any plans to upgrade xen to use a later kernel version for Dom0?Gentoo has a 2.6.21 kernel; that is rather stable. I also have major problems with the .18 release on Dell hardware. (Network device order issues etc. etc.) Stefan _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users I use Fedora 8. It has a 2.6.21 Dom0 as well. Regarding stability, I can''t say I push it to the limits, but I haven''t had any trouble with it. I had to use Fedora 8 because CentOS 5.2 didn''t have drivers for my NIC (RTL8111/8168B according to F8 lspci) and I couldn''t get the vendor provided ones to work. Fedora 8 will EOL soon, though, and Fedora 9 doesn''t include Dom0 support, plus Fedora 10 probably won''t (at least not initially) either. I don''t know what kind of timeline Gentoo runs on... Dustin _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users