From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262594AbULPBbx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:31:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262625AbULPB3E (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:29:04 -0500 Received: from gprs215-43.eurotel.cz ([160.218.215.43]:48258 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262594AbULPB1J (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Dec 2004 20:27:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 02:26:27 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Ian Pratt Cc: Andi Kleen , Rik van Riel , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, Steven.Hand@cl.cam.ac.uk, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk Subject: Re: arch/xen is a bad idea Message-ID: <20041216012627.GA6462@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20041215114916.GB1232@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040722i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > BTW if you merge xen as separate architecture, it will be *very* hard > > to merge it back to i386. That patch would be huge, and would need to > > go in "atomically". > > I don't see it like that. While continuing to track changes in > i386/x86_64, we'd restructure the code under arch xen such that > it could build (or even boot) time switch between running native > and over Xen. At some point the arch directory could then be > renamed. This would be a big project, and one that would involve > a lot more people than just the Xen team. Because the x86 So you plan to merge arch/xen then modify arch/xen to do all arch/i386 can do then rm -rf arch/i386, mv arch/xen arch/i386? Well, I'd say that's rather ambitious plan.... Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!