Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 2004 12:49:16 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: arch/xen is a bad idea |
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Hi!
> > > Stunned silence I guess - merging an architecture is > > > usually much more controversial ;) > > > > In my opinion it's still an extremly bad idea to have arch/xen > > an own architecture. It will cause a lot of work long term > > to maintain it, especially when it gets x86-64 support too. > > It would be much better to just merge it with i386/x86-64. > > Andi, I totally agree that merging into i386 could be a long term > goal. However, its just not feasible right now. The changes > required are way too intrusive. We put considerable effort into > investigating this approach, but came to the conclusion that with > the current structure of arch i386 it was going to be way too > messy.
Okay, what about this one:
You merge xen hooks in mainline, but keep maintaining arch/xen out-of-tree? You have to maintain it yourself, anyway, and having hooks merged should make it easy.
When xen is merged into i386 (you said that is your long-term goal anyway), you can merge that into mainline... Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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