Pkg xen devel - Aug 2012 - Boot failure with squeeze 4.0 hypervisor, fixed with later 4.0-testing

Hi,

I have a machine that was previously running the lenny-packaged
hypervisor. I upgraded it to squeeze recently and it failed to
complete a boot of the dom0 kernel.

I reported this on xen-devel? and was advised to try building a
hypervisor from the tip of 4.0-testing. I did this and this seems to
work for me.

I'm guessing that since wheezy will be released soon there is little
interest in working out why exactly the Debian-packed 4.0 hypervisor
for squeeze does not work on this hardware?

If there would be some value in this, then I'm in a position at the
moment to help do that.

Cheers,
Andy

? Thread starts here:
http://lists.xen.org/archives/html/xen-devel/2012-07/msg01663.html

On 08/08/2012 09:23 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> I'm guessing that since wheezy will be released soon there is little
> interest in working out why exactly the Debian-packed 4.0 hypervisor
> for squeeze does not work on this hardware?
Even after the release of Wheezy, there's one year of support for
Squeeze. If you can produce a patch, I don't see why it wouldn't reach
Squeeze, at least through proposed-updates.

The issue is how much time you want to invest yourself in the issue, and
how you can motivate / convince current maintainers (eg: mostly Waldi)
to work on it. I'd say that unless you search, and find the way to fix
yourself, then I don't see why anyone would be interested in your
specific issue.

But again, if you can produce a working and tested patch, I don't see
why it wouldn't be applied...

Thomas