[Pkg-xen-devel] Is linux-image-2.6.27-amd64-xen on the way?

[Thomas Goirand]

Paul van der Vlis wrote:
> Thomas Goirand schreef:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was wondering if you guys are working on a
>> linux-image-2.6.27-amd64-xen? That would be great!
> 
> It's better to ask that in het kernel-mailinglist I think. I expect
> there will be a 2.6.27 kernel in backports after Lenny has been
> released, but without security-support.
> 
> Maybe this is interesting info for you?
> ---------------------
> From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser at eu.citrix.com>
> To: "xen-devel at lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel at lists.xensource.com>
> Cc: "Dugger, Donald D" <donald.d.dugger at intel.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:02:26 +0000
> Subject: [Xen-devel] Linux 2.6.27 temporary tree on xenbits
> 
> As a stop-gap measure until full dom0 support is ready in pv_ops, I've
> placed a Linux 2.6.27 tree at
> http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/linux-2.6.27-xen.hg
> 
> Actually this is a Novell-patched 2.6.27 kernel -- see 00-README in the
> repo for more details.
> 
> The intention is to give a single source tree to develop and test
> against for those developers who need a more modern 2.6 kernel for
> advanced platform work such as power management. Regular test and
> maintenance will continue to focus on 2.6.18, with a grand switchover
> when pv_ops in kernel.org is considered sufficiently ready.
> 
>  -- Keir

I quite need the e1000e eth and iwl-5000 wlan drivers for my laptop, and
Xen for my developments, so yes, I'm interested in running 2.6.27 with
Xen, and I read the Xen developer list (only for my laptop though, for
my servers 2.6.26 is quite ok...).

So I tried it when it was announced: I did a "hg clone" of it, then ran
make-kpkg kernel_image on it, and it failed saying:

cp arch/x86/boot/bzImage
/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-xen.hg/debian/linux-image-2.6.27.5//boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27.5
cp: cannot stat `arch/x86/boot/bzImage': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [debian/stamp/install/linux-image-2.6.27.5] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.27-xen.hg'
make: *** [kernel_image] Error 2

what did I do wrong here?

Thomas