From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hollis Blanchard Subject: Re: New domain builder in xen-unstable Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:04:44 -0600 Message-ID: <1169831084.26668.14.camel@basalt> References: <1169830714.26668.9.camel@basalt> Reply-To: Hollis Blanchard Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1169830714.26668.9.camel@basalt> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: Keir Fraser Cc: xen-ppc-devel , Gerd Hoffmann , Xen Development Mailing List , xen-ia64-devel List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 10:58 -0600, Hollis Blanchard wrote: > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 13:43 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This is a heads up, mainly to the PowerPC and IA64 folks, that Gerd's new > > domain builder (including new Elf parser) is now checked into xen-unstable. > > This has disabled the old builder and elf-parsing code which will shortly be > > removed entirely. > > > > So far the new libelf has only been run-tested on x86, so... > > > > For IA64: most of the code is in place, but the new code needs some > > run-testing and possibly some small fixups to get it working. > > > > For PPC: looks like you have your own domain builder, which you may or may > > not decide to merge with the main code (it would be nice to!). > > Not sure what you mean by "our own domain builder"; we've been > implementing xc_linux_build() for quite a while now (and thus integrated > with xend). Sorry, I misunderstood. I was seeing all the libelf churn, and I missed the fact that xc_linux_build() is going away entirely (?). I'm still not sure what you mean by "our own domain builder" -- there is simply no way we're going to add more ifdefs to tools/libxc/xc_linux_build.c (or equivalent)... -- Hollis Blanchard IBM Linux Technology Center