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Re: [Xen-ia64-devel] [PATCH]: mini-os cleanup and big-endian stuff



On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 07:11 +0100, Dietmar Hahn wrote:
> Am Montag, 12. MÃrz 2007 19:48 schrieb Alex Williamson:
> > > By the way: how about the big-endian stuff in mini-os. After the
> > > discussion with Keir the mini-os maintainer Gregor Milos opened a way
> > > getting that stuff into the common mini-os sources.
> > > (http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-ia64-devel/2007-03/msg00003
> > >.html) If there is an interest on the list, I would try to write some
> > > wrappers. Otherwise I would send a patch to cleanup all that big-endian
> > > stuff from ia64 part of mini-os.
> >
> >    I think BE support is nice to have around, but as Gregor mentions,
> > without some test code or a viable BE PV domain it would likely bit rot
> > very quickly.  Even with test code, someone needs to run it regularly.
> > If you're up for that, I'll support keeping it in the tree.  Thanks,
> >
> >     Alex
> As I mentioned, we are working on a BE PV domain, so I'am up for that stuff. 
> Thanks for keeping it in the tree.

Hi Dietmar,

   I didn't get the impression that you intended to open source the BE
PV OS you're working on.  Is that not the case?  I think there needs to
be some way to regression test with an open source code base (test suite
or OS).  Thanks,

        Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.


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