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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system
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Alexander Graf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system |
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Tue, 21 Jun 2011 15:18:01 +0200 |
On 21.06.2011, at 15:01, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Alexander Graf writes ("[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build
> system"):
>> On 21.06.2011, at 08:26, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> From: Jan Kiszka <address@hidden>
>>>
>>> Introduce CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND so that this new config solely controls the
>>> target-independent backend build and CONFIG_XEN can focus on per-target
>>> building.
>>
>> What's the incentive here? I very much doubt we'll ever want to
>> support xen on !x86. In fact, the better solution would probably be
>> to just move every build component to x86 specific code.
>
> In the past Xen has supported ppc too and there is a half-congealed
> arm port. It's not a good assumption that Xen is x86-specific.
Well, is there a realistic chance that we'll ever get non-x86 Xen code into
upstream Qemu? I don't know how well the arm port's been doing, but the PPC one
is long dead and was always just a toy. I'm fairly sure nobody really cares
about the IA64 port either these days.
Alex
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Alexander Graf, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Alexander Graf, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Alexander Graf, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Alexander Graf, 2011/06/21
- [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Ian Jackson, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/21
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system,
Alexander Graf <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system, Stefano Stabellini, 2011/06/21
[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] xen: Clean up map cache API naming, Jan Kiszka, 2011/06/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Xen cleanups, Stefano Stabellini, 2011/06/21
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] Xen cleanups, Alexander Graf, 2011/06/21