Re: [Xen-merge] xen-merge mailing list

[Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx>]

* Rik van Riel (riel@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2005, Ian Pratt wrote:
> 
> > The first part of the work is going to be rearranging our sparse tree to
> > split arch/xen out in to drivers/xen/core and arch/{i386/x86_64}/xen.
> > Patches for this step would be very messy (mostly file renames) and
> > aren't worth maintaining as patches, hence the Linux hg tree. 
> 
> Could we do the move of non-arch specific code from
> arch/xen to drivers/xen/core in the current Xen
> linux-sparse tree already ?

Yup, I think that could be done quickly in xen-unstable.

> We can then do the other bits gradually.
> 
> My main worry is that we would end up with an alternative
> tree that has an obsolete version of Xen that's mergeable
> upstream - and no way to merge that tree with the current
> Xen bits.

I share your concern.  So far, it's been manageable, but it's also been
relatively quiet ;-)

thanks,
-chris

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