RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH]Allow different config file forxenlinux on same arch

["Zhang, Xiantao" <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>]

Many many thanks :)
Zhang Xiantao
CSD-OTC PRC Virtualization 
Intel (China) Limited 

-----Original Message-----
From: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) [mailto:dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx] 
Sent: 2005年12月22日 0:40
To: Zhang, Xiantao; Tian, Kevin; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH]Allow different config file 
forxenlinux on same arch

Committed.  Note that I removed the CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="xen"
as this is already added by higher level Xen build code and
results in a Linux version of "...-xen0xen".

Thanks,
Dan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Zhang, Xiantao [mailto:xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 11:04 PM
> To: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins); Tian, Kevin; 
> xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH]Allow different 
> config file forxenlinux on same arch
> 
> Hi Dan,
>       Thanks for your support. I have booted Xen0 
> successfully according to Akio's Knowhow, but it needs to 
> compile Xen0 twice and need to run make menuconfig manually 
> every time .So this is  not the best solution to solve this 
> issue. Lastly,I adopted your suggestion to make the generic 
> one for tiger and ZX. Comparing xen0_defconfig_ia64 in 
> xen-unstable with our xen0_defconfig_tiger, I found only 
> several items not included in xen0_defconfig_ia64. Hence, I 
> added them by "make menuconfig". Currently, we can boot Xen0 
> with this candidate generic one. We haven't ZX box, so can 
> you help me to validate it on ZX box? Thanks. If it is OK 
> with ZX Box, we can use this one as generic configuration 
> file for all IA64 machine.
>               Best wishes! 
>       Thanks 
> Zhang Xiantao
> CSD-OTC PRC Virtualization 
> Intel (China) Limited 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) 
> [mailto:dan.magenheimer@xxxxxx] 
> Sent: 2005年12月19日 23:56
> To: Tian, Kevin; Zhang, Xiantao; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH]Allow different 
> config file forxenlinux on same arch
> 
> I support the patch but I think it should be accepted
> and committed by someone in Cambridge or Xensource because
> it affects important common (and Xen/x86) build files.
> Try resubmitting it to xen-devel.
> 
> However, I think the best answer is to figure out what's
> wrong in the generic config file and fix that.
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:xen-ia64-devel-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf 
> > Of Tian, Kevin
> > Sent: Monday, December 19, 2005 2:10 AM
> > To: Zhang, Xiantao; xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Xen-ia64-devel] RE: [PATCH]Allow different config 
> > file forxenlinux on same arch
> > 
> > Hi, Dan,
> >     Any comments upon this thread? We also posted the patch 
> > to xen mailing list earlier, since it changes common part. 
> > Previously the generic one was once checked in, but then 
> > reversed back to ZX specific one. However customer is waiting 
> > for specific configuration file to run on tiger box. So below 
> > is another way to achieve it. If you agree with this 
> > alternative, please help push it since it's a key step to let 
> > XEN/IA64 deployed and experienced more widely. ;-)
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Kevin
> > 
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Zhang, Xiantao
> > >Sent: 2005年12月19日 9:50
> > >To: xen-ia64-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >Cc: Tian, Kevin
> > >Subject: [PATCH]Allow different config file for xenlinux 
> on same arch
> > >
> > >Currently there is no generic configure file to compile 
> > xenlinux on ia64, since there're
> > >several different system types like HP-ZX, DIG, etc. Current 
> > Makefile can't meet this
> > >need and default one (xen0_defconfig_ia64) is only for HP-ZX 
> > type. Hence, this
> > >patch can append an additional param to configuration file 
> > name to differentiate
> > >system types when make.
> > >
> > >For example, we can use "make world XEN_SYSTYPE=dig" to 
> > compile, and if a
> > >config file named as xen0_defconfig_ia64dig exists under 
> > arch/xen/configs, it will be
> > >copied to override xen0_defconfig_ia64 before real 
> > compilation.. If no value for this
> > >option, it use default configure file for their archs.
> > >
> > >Configuration file is not attached here. If this approach is 
> > an agreed approach to
> > >solve such requirement, we will check in the config file in 
> > another mail.
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by Zhang Xiantao <xiantao.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >Signed-off-by Tian Kevin <kevin.tian@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >diff -r 0255f48b757f Makefile
> > >--- a/Makefile     Sun Dec  4 19:12:00 2005
> > >+++ b/Makefile     Wed Dec 14 17:35:04 2005
> > >@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
> > > # Export target architecture overrides to Xen and Linux sub-trees.
> > > ifneq ($(XEN_TARGET_ARCH),)
> > > SUBARCH := $(subst x86_32,i386,$(XEN_TARGET_ARCH))
> > >-export XEN_TARGET_ARCH SUBARCH
> > >+export XEN_TARGET_ARCH SUBARCH XEN_SYSTYPE
> > > endif
> > >
> > > # Default target must appear before any include lines
> > >diff -r 0255f48b757f buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-xen
> > >--- a/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-xen        Sun Dec  4 19:12:00 2005
> > >+++ b/buildconfigs/mk.linux-2.6-xen        Wed Dec 14 17:35:04 2005
> > >@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
> > >   CONFIG_VERSION=$$(sed -ne 's/^EXTRAVERSION = //p'
> > >$(LINUX_DIR)/Makefile); \
> > >   [ -r
> > >$(DESTDIR)/boot/config-$(LINUX_VER)$$CONFIG_VERSION-$(EXTRAVERSION)
> > > ] && \
> > >     cp
> > >$(DESTDIR)/boot/config-$(LINUX_VER)$$CONFIG_VERSION-$(EXTRAVERSION)
> > >$(LINUX_DIR)/.config \
> > >-    || cp
> > >$(LINUX_DIR)/arch/xen/configs/$(EXTRAVERSION)_defconfig_$(XEN
> > _TARGET_A
> > >RCH) \
> > >+    || cp
> > >$(LINUX_DIR)/arch/xen/configs/$(EXTRAVERSION)_defconfig_$(XEN
> > _TARGET_A
> > >RCH)$(XEN_SYSTYPE) \
> > >           $(LINUX_DIR)/.config
> > >   # See if we need to munge config to enable PAE
> > >   $(MAKE) CONFIG_FILE=$(LINUX_DIR)/.config -f 
> > buildconfigs/Rules.mk
> > >config-update-pae
> > >
> > >Zhang Xiantao
> > >CSD-OTC PRC Virtualization
> > >Intel (China) Limited
> > 
> > 
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