RE: arch/xen is a bad idea

2005-02-26 Thread Ian Pratt
> > I think there's an interim compromise position that > everyone might go > > for: > > > > Phase 1 is for us to submit a load of patches that squeeze > out the low > > hanging fruit in unifying xen/i386 and i386. Most of these will be > > strict cleanups to i386, and the result will be to alm

Re: arch/xen is a bad idea

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew Morton
"Ian Pratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The Xen team still believe that it's best to keep arch/xen, > > arch/xen/i386, > > arch/xen/x86_64, etc. And I believe that Andi (who is the > > world expert on > > maintaining an i386 derivative) thinks that this is will be a > > long-term > > m

Re: arch/xen is a bad idea

2005-02-25 Thread Andi Kleen
> Phase 1 is for us to submit a load of patches that squeeze out the low > hanging fruit in unifying xen/i386 and i386. Most of these will be > strict cleanups to i386, and the result will be to almost halve the > number of files that we need to modify. Sounds good. I would try to track that for x

RE: arch/xen is a bad idea

2005-02-25 Thread Ian Pratt
> The Xen team still believe that it's best to keep arch/xen, > arch/xen/i386, > arch/xen/x86_64, etc. And I believe that Andi (who is the > world expert on > maintaining an i386 derivative) thinks that this is will be a > long-term > maintenance problem. I think there's an interim compromis

Re: arch/xen is a bad idea

2005-02-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my opinion it's still an extremly bad idea to have arch/xen > an own architecture. Guys, I'd like to kick this a bit further down the road. Things still seem to be somewhat deadlocked. To summarise my understanding: The Xen team still believe that i