Re: [PATCH] raisin: disable stubdoms and etherboot in xen

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

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Stefano Stabellini
<stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> Raisin is about cloning (or downloading) components explicitly and
> independently, rather than having the Xen build system clone and build
> stuff as part of the build process.
>
> Unfortunately it is not possible to build stubdoms outside the Xen tree
> today, so just disable stubdoms for the moment.
>
> Similarly etherboot support requires downloading ipxe, so remove it for
> now.

So apart from stub domains, what does qemu-trad buy us over qemu-upstream now?

Also, would it make sense to make it possible to build with a system
ipxe?  That's what CentOS does, FWIW.

 -George

>
> With this patch, building Xen via Raisin doesn't fetch anything from the
> web, aside from what is configure in the config file.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
>
> ---
>
> diff --git a/components/xen b/components/xen
> index 090cceb..894d119 100644
> --- a/components/xen
> +++ b/components/xen
> @@ -42,10 +42,13 @@ function xen_build() {
>      then
>          ovmf_opt="--enable-ovmf --with-system-ovmf="$BASEDIR"/ovmf-dir/ovmf.bin"
>      fi
> +    export ETHERBOOT_NICS=""
>      ./configure --prefix=$PREFIX --with-system-qemu=$PREFIX/lib/xen/bin/qemu-system-i386 \
> -        --disable-qemu-traditional --enable-rombios $seabios_opt $ovmf_opt
> +        --disable-stubdom --disable-qemu-traditional \
> +        --enable-rombios $seabios_opt $ovmf_opt
>      $RAISIN_MAKE
>      $RAISIN_MAKE install DESTDIR="$INST_DIR"
> +    unset ETHERBOOT_NICS
>      cd "$BASEDIR"
>  }
>
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