Re: [Xen-devel] A reorganization of Xen sources is necessary before integrating Xen into Linux.

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 Feb 2005, at 16:14, Philippe Berthault wrote:

> I have searched assembly code in Xen sources (xen-unstable)
> and I'm very surprised because the assembly code isn't located
> in 'arch' directories.

Clean-up work is ongoing -- you'll notice that Xen itself contains no assembly code, or other arch-specific routines, outside the arch subdirectories. The particular XenLinux file you point out is our one rather arch-specific driver -- that one is likely to get moved to arch/xen/i386 at some point. There is some work to be done on the tools: no architecture apart from x86 currently uses them.

> Is there a plan to reorganize source code into a better and cleanest
> architecture ?
> I thinks this would be mandatory before integrating Xen into Linux.

Xen and XenLinux are already clean (apart from that one driver file), so this is not a barrier to getting our Linux changes integrated into the mainline repository.

-- Keir