Re: [Xen-devel] Mixing patches

["Tom Cranbrook" <tcranbrook@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>I haven't looked at the patch, but it sounds like it would want
>to do some pretty gross stuff. 
>
>As a quick way to apply the patch, you might want to take a look
>at the fakei386xen script in tools/misc. It basically renames
>arch xen to arch i386 so the patch without modification. I wrote
>it to enable me to build an external module supplied with a very
>dumb Makefile.
>
>

Well, the script certainly ends up the equivilant of my first suggestion,
but a number of the files the w4l patch expects are gone.  This is a list
of files that it touches:

patching file kernel/sched.c
patching file mm/vmscan.c
patching file arch/i386/Kconfig
patching file arch/i386/kernel/apm.c
patching file arch/i386/kernel/cpu/common.c
patching file arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
patching file arch/i386/kernel/head.S
patching file arch/i386/kernel/process.c
patching file arch/i386/kernel/signal.c
patching file arch/i386/kernel/vm86.c
patching file arch/i386/Makefile
patching file arch/i386/mki/Makefile
patching file arch/i386/mki/mki.c
patching file arch/i386/mm/fault.c
patching file include/asm-i386/desc.h
patching file include/asm-i386/mki.h
patching file include/asm-i386/mkiversion.h
patching file include/asm-i386/segment.h
patching file include/asm-i386/thread_info.h
patching file include/linux/init_task.h
patching file include/linux/sched.h

Most of this seems to be hooks to a branch added to arch/i386 called
mki-adaptor in a second pacth.  This appears to be the interface to
netraverse's binary.  

Did all the i386 specific stuff move to the xen kernel?  I thought that the
idea of paravirtualization was the simularity between the abstraction and
the hardware.  Are these files things that have been moved to the xen
kernel and abstracted out of the domain environment?





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