Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] Community effort neededtocatch upwithxen-unstable

[John Byrne <john.l.byrne@xxxxxx>]

Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:
> Thanks, Kevin and John, for all your hard work to get
> this working again.
>
> I haven't looked closely at the patches (Kevin's, and
> John's which haven't yet been posted :-)...
>
> Are there any files changed that are NOT ia64-specific?
> I want to be very careful about putting files into
> xen-ia64-unstable.hg that, if pulled into xen-unstable.hg,
> might break Xen/x86.  These should probably be separate
> patches so Keir can look at them individually.
>
> Also, once this is all working, we should look at what
> it would take to get xenlinux/ia64 built directly from
> the xen(-sparse) tree so we won't have to play
> "catch up" again.
>
> Logging out for the evening now...
> Dan
Yes, Kevin made some changes in non-ia64 specific files. I think most of 
the changes are in ia64-specific code, but you'll need to review them.
My patch set will include a change the tools Makefile to not build ioemu 
for ia64. You don't have to accept that change if you don't want to. The 
only other change I have to xen-ia64-unstable is in the ia64-specific 
version of grant_table.c.
As to the driver changes in xenlinux, we'll have to see what it will 
take to make things acceptable to the x86 crowd. In the block driver, 
several of the changes may not be strictly unnecessary, but it is kind 
of ugly to allocate/free things that you never really use. We'll have to 
see what we can do there. I'm not sure about networking, yet.
John





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