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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:51:37 -0700
From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
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Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH 2/2] xen: don't drop NX bit
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Greg KH wrote:
> While it's great that you tell the stable people about this, but is it
> realistic?  Is anyone using Xen as contained in the mainline kernel
> these days?
>   

Yes, it's what Redhat is shipping in Fedora 9.

> If a distro were to be based on 2.6.25 and we take this patch, they will
> just revert it back out due to their very large Xen patchset they apply
> on top to get a "working" Xen version, right?
>   

No.  RH is using upstream Xen now.  I don't know what the other distros 
are doing, but Novell is considering it, at least.

    J
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