From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
To: Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@eu.citrix.com>,
David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>,
Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@citrix.com>,
Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
xen-devel@lists.xen.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] raisin: RFC Add blktap2 as an external tree
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:47:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55362AB8.9030409@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1504211140200.3112@kaball.uk.xensource.com>
On 04/21/2015 11:42 AM, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
>> The only reason to disable this on ARM at the minute is because you
>> *believe* that nobody will ever want to build the blktap2 kernel module
>> on ARM, and so you want to avoid the build overhead and space overhead
>> of compiling and using dead code. If that's your goal, you might get
>> more mileage out of disabling stuff like xenmon or the paging code. :-)
>
> No, that is not right. The reason I would like to disable blktap2 for
> ARM is that the userspace binaries and libraries won't compile on ARM at
> the moment. At least that was the case the last time I tried it. If you
> prove me wrong, I would be happy to have blktap2 on ARM too.
Right, I didn't realize that. That's certainly a good reason to disable
it on ARM. :-)
-George
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-21 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-16 16:19 [PATCH 1/8] raisin: Fix non-verbose case George Dunlap
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 2/8] Include actual config in package, not defconfig George Dunlap
2015-04-17 10:10 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 3/8] raisin: Use fakeroot for mkdeb so we can build the package as non-root George Dunlap
2015-04-17 8:43 ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-17 9:39 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 17:08 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 8:57 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 9:09 ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 4/8] raisin: Use PKGTYPE rather than DISTRO to determine how to build a package George Dunlap
2015-04-17 10:10 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 17:08 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 5/8] raisin: Fix CentOS build George Dunlap
2015-04-16 16:23 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-17 10:14 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 9:04 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 10:29 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 17:08 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 6/8] raisin: Break build into components and allow the sub-steps to be called individually George Dunlap
2015-04-17 10:18 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 9:05 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 7/8] raisin: Rework component specification George Dunlap
2015-04-17 10:37 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 9:17 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 10:26 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-17 10:40 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 9:19 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 17:08 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-16 16:19 ` [PATCH 8/8] raisin: RFC Add blktap2 as an external tree George Dunlap
2015-04-17 10:50 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-17 11:04 ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-20 9:38 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 10:08 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-17 10:58 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 10:59 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 17:05 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-21 9:25 ` Ian Campbell
2015-04-21 9:49 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-21 10:09 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-21 10:30 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-21 10:42 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-21 10:47 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2015-04-21 11:01 ` Dave Scott
2015-04-21 11:04 ` Dave Scott
2015-04-21 11:06 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-21 11:20 ` Dave Scott
2015-04-21 10:06 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-17 10:06 ` [PATCH 1/8] raisin: Fix non-verbose case Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 8:49 ` George Dunlap
2015-04-20 10:01 ` Stefano Stabellini
2015-04-20 17:07 ` Stefano Stabellini
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