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[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system

To: Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build system
From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:23:35 +0200
Cc: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 2011-06-21 09:21, Alexander Graf wrote:
> 
> On 21.06.2011, at 08:26, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> 
>> From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> 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.

I doubt that as well. But keeping the backend centrals prevent building
them twice (for i386 and x86_64).

Jan

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