[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-merge] i386 subarch
--Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxx> wrote (on Thursday, August 04, 2005 13:21:59 -0700): > * Martin J. Bligh (mbligh@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: >> > Much of the duplication is just how Xen has been developed. The >> > Makefiles show where there's pure dup, and the sparse tree shows you >> > what's actually changed. >> > >> >> So what do we want to do? Break it up by filename, and see if we >> >> can get several people to clean up a few files each? Tis a fair >> >> amount of work to do. Will help if we can get the patch to as small >> >> as possible, and show as little duplication as possible to miminize >> >> ongoing maintainance for everyone (including, but not limited to >> >> the Xen people). >> > >> > I think that's the best way to go forward. I'd like to get it to a >> > point where the patch is minimal before we start breaking down the dups. >> >> OK, I'll start whacking on some of those C files, and see if I can >> break them apart. Will take it down by function first, then we can >> go finer-grained than that later, but functions should break the back >> of it, I think. > > The next snapshot should have basically only sparse tree files in > mach-xen/. Moving functions alone can get a bit messy because there's > some dependency with the other subarches. May be good enough for first > pass to just get subarch with only spars files (at which point we could > commit to Xen tree). The further breakdown could then happen > in-tree...at least that's my current thinking. OK, I was thinking we could break up some of hte files in mainline we wanted to override, and move those down into the subarch code. Then merged that back (as a no-op) to Linus. Is that conflicting with what you're doing, or not? can't quite parse the above ;-) M. _______________________________________________ Xen-merge mailing list Xen-merge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xensource.com/xen-merge
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