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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 2/4] build: Download and build extnernal
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Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 13:02:25 +0100
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On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 12:10 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> > However we could make it easier to built libxl and blktap together, we
> > could also add blktap to OSSTest and Raisin
> > (http://marc.info/?l=xen-devel&m=142779794216955).
> 
> I wouldn't mind moving all external repos (qemu-*, seabios, ovmf,
> blktap, &c) out of the Xen tree as soon as Raisin is mature enough to do so.

Given the intertwining of blktap2 with libxl etc making it a
cloned-by-xen.git tree instead of in-xen.git might be a convenient first
step? The raisin development would then proceed using the
--with-system-blktap option and eventually the in tree stuff could be
dropped.

Ian.