Alexander Graf writes ("[Xen-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] xen: Clean up build
system"):
> On 21.06.2011, at 08:26, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> > From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com>
> >
> > Introduce CONFIG_XEN_BACKEND so that this new config solely controls the
> > target-independent backend build and CONFIG_XEN can focus on per-target
> > building.
>
> What's the incentive here? I very much doubt we'll ever want to
> support xen on !x86. In fact, the better solution would probably be
> to just move every build component to x86 specific code.
In the past Xen has supported ppc too and there is a half-congealed
arm port. It's not a good assumption that Xen is x86-specific.
Ian.
