From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George Dunlap Subject: Re: [RFC 2/7] linux-stubdomain: Compile Linux Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 10:08:32 +0100 Message-ID: References: <1423022775-7132-1-git-send-email-eshelton@pobox.com> <1423022775-7132-3-git-send-email-eshelton@pobox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xen.org To: Stefano Stabellini Cc: Anthony PERARD , "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" , Ian Campbell , Eric Shelton List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Stefano Stabellini wrote: >> >> +LINUX_URL=ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/$(LINUX_V).tar.xz >> >> + >> >> +all: $(VMLINUZ) >> > >> > I think it is best if we git clone it. >> >> Is that still true if unpatched 3.18.6 works? I don't know if there >> is a desire to reduce load on kernel.org, for example. > > That's a good point. I think git clone would be more inline with any > other external project that we use. However I'll let the other > maintainers decide on this. It takes a *loooooooong* time to download a full Linux git tree, and it takes up a huge amount of disk space. It would be a lot more convenient to be able to just download a tarball. -George