8 May
2020
8 May
'20
9:25 a.m.
Hello,
On 8 May 2020 00:53:20 BST, Andy Smith <andy(a)bitfolk.com> wrote:
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My question to you is, if I made the BitFolk Xen Shell
installer for
Ubuntu 20.04 install such an apt hook so that it automatically
decompressed LZ4 kernels, would that be an acceptable state to
consider Ubuntu 20.04 officially supported at BitFolk?
What would you be thinking the first time you did a kernel upgrade
and saw apt call an extra script to decompress the kernel?
At the moment Ubuntu 20.04 is not listed on the BitFolk web site as
available, nor is there an installer for it in the Xen Shell,
because of the need to decompress its kernel. It is only possible to
install it by upgrade from an earlier release or by use of the
Rescue VM - and then you need to take care of the kernel yourself.
Put another way, is automating the decompression of LZ4 kernels at
kernel upgrade time a good enough solution to allow Ubuntu 20.04 to
be listed as available on the web site and in the Xen Shell?
If the consensus is "no" then I think Ubuntu 20.04 will have to
remain as not officially supported here until either there's a
pvgrub that supports LZ4 kernels or BitFolk introduces PVH mode.
Cheers,
Andy
If I have noticed that happen, I would have probably simply accepted it as a
"platform quirk" - all of the major virt platforms have some, so it would come
as no surprise to me. Now that we have full disclosure from you, I would feel 100%
comfortable with it. Regarding auto decompression vs. PVH mode, I will have to trust you
to make the most future-proof decision. So, in the spirit of getting support for 20.04
baked into Bitfolk, I will support you with a "yes" for auto decompression. From
what you said, it sounds like the least restrictive path to take.
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Regards,
Jan Henkins