[Lucid SRU] Prepare virtual to replace ec2

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/07/2013 08:56 AM, Stefan Bader wrote:
> This is mostly changing modules to be built-in. The other patch would be
> upstream stable if that kernel version would be updated more often.
> With those changes the virtual binary package would be usable on EC2 (pending a
> change to grub-legacy-ec2 to detect them). With those both in place, the final
> switchover would be done through the ec2 meta package.
> 
> -Stefan
> 
> The following changes since commit a7aa232782dd0ae9ec3823d1d9e78574e1a6a571:
> 
>   UBUNTU: Ubuntu-2.6.32-47.109 (2013-05-06 18:36:15 -0700)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   kernel.ubuntu.com:/srv/kernel.ubuntu.com/git/smb/ubuntu-lucid.git ec2tomaster
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to b71c5cf946c84fb2b823d1af0402583257b3ab5b:
> 
>   SAUCE: xen: Send spinlock IPI to all waiters (2013-05-07 17:52:01 +0200)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Stefan Bader (2):
>       UBUNTU: (config) Import Xen specific config options from ec2
>       SAUCE: xen: Send spinlock IPI to all waiters
> 
>  arch/x86/xen/spinlock.c                            |    1 -
>  .../abi/2.6.32-46.108/amd64/server.ignore.modules  |   10 ++++++++++
>  .../2.6.32-46.108/i386/generic-pae.ignore.modules  |   10 ++++++++++
>  debian.master/config/amd64/config.flavour.generic  |   11 +++++++++++
>  debian.master/config/amd64/config.flavour.preempt  |   11 +++++++++++
>  debian.master/config/amd64/config.flavour.server   |   11 +++++++++++
>  debian.master/config/armel/config.common.armel     |    4 ++++
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu          |   12 +-----------
>  debian.master/config/i386/config.common.i386       |    7 +++++++
>  debian.master/config/i386/config.flavour.386       |    4 ++++
>  debian.master/config/i386/config.flavour.generic   |    4 ++++
>  .../config/i386/config.flavour.generic-pae         |    4 ++++
>  debian.master/config/lpia/config.common.lpia       |    4 ++++
>  13 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.32-46.108/amd64/server.ignore.modules
>  create mode 100644 debian.master/abi/2.6.32-46.108/i386/generic-pae.ignore.modules
> 
> 
> 

Stefan - This seems like kind of a mammoth change. Other then the
obvious maintenance benefits for the kernel team, what is the benefit
for the average EC2 consumer ?

rtg
-- 
Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com