Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 4/9] raisin: add a component to build qemu_traditional

[Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Apr 2015, Ian Campbell wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-15 at 16:49 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > >> It would be nice if there was a --wtih-system-qemu-trad= option, but
> > >> that has been looked upon unfavourably by the maintainers.
> > > Thanks for feedback!!
> > > I think Raisin needs something like --with-system-qemu-trad=, so if Xen
> > > doesn't provide it, we'll have to carry a patch in Raisin to do it.
> > >
> > > Do you have a link to the discussion or previously rejected patch?
> > 
> > I am not sure that there was ever a patch - it may have been a
> > discussion I had with ijc in person.
> 
> Possibly I can't remember myself either.
> 
> > I would be +1 for a --with-system-qemu-trad= option to mirror the
> > --with-system-qemu, especially as I am now not the only advocate of one.
> 
> In a pre-raisin world I suppose I thought it didn't make too much sense
> to go through that churn if we weren't going to stop _all_
> cloning/downloading from within xen.git.
> 
> Personally I would have considered qemu-trad very much part of the long
> tail wrt moving things out of xen.git, but anyway.
> 
> I'd like to see raisin used/supported by osstest before we start
> accepting thoe sorts of xen.git patches being suggested here.

I think we'll have to carry those patches in Raisin anyway, otherwise
how are we supposed to be able to build xen 4.5? I don't think is
reasonable to be able to build only 4.6 onward.


> (I also think osstest support is a prerequisite for saying it is an
> officially support XenProject thing, but that's offtopic in this
> context)

I spoke with IanJ and he didn't seem too keen on adding raisin support
to osstest before raisin could build everything out of tree. That's way
I started tackling qemu and qemu-traditional.

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