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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:37:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190517163719.GO2798@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKmqyKNs8U4o9PJUF6pLMLrRMs4=f8OwDV1a=2fyatMqzdnbfA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:25:36PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:31 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > >>> On 16.05.19 at 02:02, <alistair.francis@wdc.com> wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
> >
> > At least to me it is far from obvious why we would want/need to
> > do this update, or where the canonical "latest version" lives and
> > hence where this is coming from. Another question might be
> > whether it is a good thing to pull this in as a single blob (covering
> > a gap of 7 years), thus presumably also discarding authorship
> > of dozens of people. But of course, in the end it's the people
> > you've Cc-ed who need to decide whether this is fine to take in
> > this shape.
> 
> No body should be editing this file. Ideally it would be autogenerated
> by autoconf, but as we define AC_CANONICAL_HOST the file is not
> generated (see [1]).
> 
> I have updated the commit to include the upstream SHA where we are
> getting the file from.
> 
> The current file is so old that it doesn't support new architectures
> such as RISC-V.
> 

I think this is a strong argument for updating config.sub.

Wei.

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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>
Cc: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
	Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>,
	Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
	xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version
Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 17:37:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190517163719.GO2798@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190517163719.Kug4Qcb5r_2sUdSeEGurJ7is3ch_kZuTd9HCLX1ucrg@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKmqyKNs8U4o9PJUF6pLMLrRMs4=f8OwDV1a=2fyatMqzdnbfA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 12:25:36PM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:31 AM Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> >
> > >>> On 16.05.19 at 02:02, <alistair.francis@wdc.com> wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
> >
> > At least to me it is far from obvious why we would want/need to
> > do this update, or where the canonical "latest version" lives and
> > hence where this is coming from. Another question might be
> > whether it is a good thing to pull this in as a single blob (covering
> > a gap of 7 years), thus presumably also discarding authorship
> > of dozens of people. But of course, in the end it's the people
> > you've Cc-ed who need to decide whether this is fine to take in
> > this shape.
> 
> No body should be editing this file. Ideally it would be autogenerated
> by autoconf, but as we define AC_CANONICAL_HOST the file is not
> generated (see [1]).
> 
> I have updated the commit to include the upstream SHA where we are
> getting the file from.
> 
> The current file is so old that it doesn't support new architectures
> such as RISC-V.
> 

I think this is a strong argument for updating config.sub.

Wei.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-17 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16  0:02 [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02 ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02 ` [PATCH 2/3] xen/drivers/char: Don't require vpl011 for all non-x86 archs Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02   ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 10:32   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:32     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 19:30     ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 19:30       ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17  6:26       ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-17  6:26         ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-17 22:02         ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 22:02           ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17  8:46       ` Julien Grall
2019-05-17  8:46         ` [Xen-devel] " Julien Grall
2019-05-17 22:01         ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 22:01           ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-20  9:56           ` Julien Grall
2019-05-20  9:56             ` [Xen-devel] " Julien Grall
2019-05-16  0:02 ` [PATCH 3/3] xen/rwlock: Include lib.h Alistair Francis
2019-05-16  0:02   ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 10:34   ` Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:34     ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] config.sub: Update config.sub to latest version Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 10:31   ` [Xen-devel] " Jan Beulich
2019-05-16 11:13   ` Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 11:13     ` [Xen-devel] " Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 11:39     ` Wei Liu
2019-05-16 11:39       ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 11:44       ` Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 11:44         ` [Xen-devel] " Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 12:47         ` Wei Liu
2019-05-16 12:47           ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 13:18       ` Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 13:18         ` [Xen-devel] " Olaf Hering
2019-05-16 13:30         ` Wei Liu
2019-05-16 13:30           ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 19:27           ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 19:27             ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 16:37             ` Wei Liu
2019-05-17 16:37               ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-17 22:38               ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 22:38                 ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-18  9:51                 ` Wei Liu
2019-05-18  9:51                   ` [Xen-devel] " Wei Liu
2019-05-16 19:25   ` Alistair Francis
2019-05-16 19:25     ` [Xen-devel] " Alistair Francis
2019-05-17 16:37     ` Wei Liu [this message]
2019-05-17 16:37       ` Wei Liu

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