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From: John Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile reworking
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 15:18:16 +0000
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:16:42PM +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:

> Can you give dome info about the aim of this patch? I would expect that 
> the solaris port will get committed to the opensolaris tree rather than 
> going into our repository as a sparse tree

Right.

> outside our repository and our build environment. So I don't understand 
> why we want a solaris config in our repository.

It's about Xen/tools not the kernel port.

This is initial work towards a Solaris Domain 0. For that we most
definitely want the tools and Xen itself compiling (and eventually,
working) on Solaris. We could maintain this as a permanent fork, but
that has all the disadvantages a fork usually does.

regards,
john