RE: [Xen-devel] recent major -unstable changes cause ia64 build to be broken

["Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)" <dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx>]

Keir --

Thanks for putting those changes in.  I have already
grabbed and tested them with latest ia64 bits.

Please pull:
bk://xen-ia64.bkbits.net/xeno-unstable-ia64.bk

and life should be happy again for ia64 users :-)

Thanks,
Dan 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keir Fraser [mailto:Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 2:17 PM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins)
> Cc: xen-devel
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] recent major -unstable changes cause 
> ia64 build to be broken
> 
> 
> On 10 May 2005, at 20:16, Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort 
> Collins) wrote:
> 
> > It looks like the recent changes to update
> > to base off of 2.6.11 rather than 2.4 has badly
> > broken the ia64 build.  I'm still looking to figure
> > out exactly what is wrong but it doesn't look easy.
> 
> The most pertinent changes are:
>   1. Upgrade ACPI common code from Linux 2.6.11
>   2. Remove PCI code
> 
> There are a few others (e.g., starting slowly to move to Linux's 
> cpumask_t), but I think they are unlikely to be difficult to fix for. 
> Certainly they have resulted in very few changes to files in 
> include/xen.
> 
> Change (1) ought not to be too difficult to fix for ia64 as most of 
> your code is 2.6-based already. I just pulled the 2.6.11 x86-specific 
> acpi source files into Xen and tweaked them a very small 
> amount to get 
> them to build.
> 
> Change (2) is also likely very easy, since you say you leave most 
> hardware setup to domain0 anyway. I doubt you need to do PCI 
> enumeration or scanning in Xen itself? Culling you in-Xen PCI code 
> entirely is probably the best way forward.
> 
>   -- Keir
> 
> 

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