Re: [PATCH 4/9] raisin: add a component to build qemu_traditional

[George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>]

On 04/15/2015 05:11 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
>> On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 16:49 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>>>>> It would be nice if there was a --wtih-system-qemu-trad= option, but
>>>>> that has been looked upon unfavourably by the maintainers.
>>>> Thanks for feedback!!
>>>> I think Raisin needs something like --with-system-qemu-trad=, so if Xen
>>>> doesn't provide it, we'll have to carry a patch in Raisin to do it.
>>>>
>>>> Do you have a link to the discussion or previously rejected patch?
>>>
>>> I am not sure that there was ever a patch - it may have been a
>>> discussion I had with ijc in person.
>>
>> Possibly I can't remember myself either.
>>
>>> I would be +1 for a --with-system-qemu-trad= option to mirror the
>>> --with-system-qemu, especially as I am now not the only advocate of one.
>>
>> In a pre-raisin world I suppose I thought it didn't make too much sense
>> to go through that churn if we weren't going to stop _all_
>> cloning/downloading from within xen.git.
>>
>> Personally I would have considered qemu-trad very much part of the long
>> tail wrt moving things out of xen.git, but anyway.
>>
>> I'd like to see raisin used/supported by osstest before we start
>> accepting thoe sorts of xen.git patches being suggested here.
> 
> I think we'll have to carry those patches in Raisin anyway, otherwise
> how are we supposed to be able to build xen 4.5? I don't think is
> reasonable to be able to build only 4.6 onward.

Why isn't that reasonable?  It's a completely new tool.

Speaking of which -- are we going to try to make any version of raisin
build any random version of Xen, or are we going to have "releases" of
raisin (and subsequent branches and tags in the raisin.git tree) for
each version we want to support?

 -George