ACK: [Natty, Oneiric] [SRU] Built-in some Xen drivers

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Thu Dec 1 15:59:42 UTC 2011


On 12/01/2011 08:44 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/linux/+bug/886521
>
> SRU justification:
>
> Impact: Xen HVM guests (since around 2.6.36) will by default disable
> (unplug) the emulated devices in favour of the paravirtualized drivers
> when support for both is present (module or built-in).
> This would make Xen installs more complicated (even if we put them into
> a udeb because they are not getting autoprobed).
>
> Fix: Change the configurations to have those (and the platform driver
> which is recommended and actually non-configurable in 3.2 and later)
> built-in.
>
> Testcase: Installing a normal cdimage in HVM mode.
>
> -Stefan
>

Since we're already doing this for Precise...
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com




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