Boris Derzhavets
2009-Aug-24 11:42 UTC
Re: [Fedora-xen] BZIP2 and LZMA support patch for Xen PV domU bootloader
Virt-install F12 PV hangs on 64-bit. Report attached. Boris. --- On Sun, 8/23/09, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> wrote: From: Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik@iki.fi> Subject: Re: [Fedora-xen] BZIP2 and LZMA support patch for Xen PV domU bootloader To: "Mark McLoughlin" <markmc@redhat.com> Cc: fedora-xen@redhat.com Date: Sunday, August 23, 2009, 12:45 PM On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 10:04:09PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote:> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:12PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 19:44 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 05:05:17PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 18:41 +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > > > > > > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP is not set > > > > > # CONFIG_KERNEL_BZIP2 is not set > > > > > CONFIG_KERNEL_LZMA=y > > > > > > > > > > OK, so the problem is the rawhide kernel is LZMA compressed. Wasn''t this > > > > > changed back to GZIP earlier? > > > > > > > > Thanks for pointing that out, see: > > > > > > > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515831 > > > > > > > > It got disabled on a branch for the F12 Alpha release, but never got > > > > disabled on the devel/ branch. Should be fixed now. > > > > > > > > > > Thanks. Now I''ll just wait for the next kernel build.. :) > > > > > > (or try applying the patch Chris sent to support BZIP2 and LZMA for Xen PV bootloader). > > > > Testing Chris''s patch would certainly be a good idea. LZMA will come > > back again in Fedora 13, so we should make sure to have the patch in > > good shape by then > > > > I actually already ''ported'' the patch to Xen 3.4.1 and made sure it > compiles OK. I''ve included it (and extra gcc 4.4.0 compilefix) to this > email, and also sent them to xen-devel. > > atm I''m trying to make the patch work/apply with Fedora xen-3.4.1-1 src.rpm .. > and sorting out some fedora/rpm specific compilation failure.. >Here''s updated patch that actually works. I added it to xen-3.4.1-1.src.rpm and verified the resulting rpms are able to boot lzma compressed kernels. It''s still not final patch, since the stubdom/pvgrub bzip2/lzma support is not yet included in this patch (until the proper method for Makefile hacks is determined upstream). -- Pasi -----Inline Attachment Follows----- -- Fedora-xen mailing list Fedora-xen@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-xen