Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-21 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 18.09.15 at 21:31, wrote: > So locally I have in the xen/ (the hypervisor) "make menuconfig" working > but I'd likely address any concerns you might have upfront in the > patches. Effectively the xen/ directory now when built runs "make > defconfig" before it builds to generate the configur

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-18 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 9/3/15 10:00 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 03.09.15 at 16:04, wrote: >> On 9/3/15 5:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: >> On 02.09.15 at 19:50, wrote: * target only the xen/ directory tree (i.e. not the toolstack, stubdoms or docs) >>> >>> As just said in another reply, allowing for ./co

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-04 Thread Stefano Stabellini
On Wed, 2 Sep 2015, Doug Goldstein wrote: > Long term, yes we can tackle tools and stubdoms as well but initially I > was trying to eat the elephant one bite at a time. My idea was that we > would do xen/ first and you would have to go into that directory and run > "make defconfig/menuconfig/config

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-04 Thread Ian Campbell
On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 11:59 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 03/09/15 10:56, Ian Campbell wrote: > > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 19:29 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > > On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > > I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan > > > > Creekmore > > >

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-04 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 03/09/15 10:56, Ian Campbell wrote: On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 19:29 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and on IRC about po

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 03.09.15 at 16:04, wrote: > On 9/3/15 5:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: > On 02.09.15 at 19:50, wrote: >>> * target only the xen/ directory tree (i.e. not the toolstack, stubdoms >>> or docs) >> >> As just said in another reply, allowing for ./configure to pass down >> options to the config

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 9/3/15 4:56 AM, Tim Deegan wrote: > Hi, > > At 12:50 -0500 on 02 Sep (1441198200), Doug Goldstein wrote: >> I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore >> and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and >> on IRC about potentially using Kconfi

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 9/3/15 5:31 AM, Jan Beulich wrote: On 02.09.15 at 19:50, wrote: >> * target only the xen/ directory tree (i.e. not the toolstack, stubdoms >> or docs) > > As just said in another reply, allowing for ./configure to pass down > options to the configure mechanism in xen/ would seem desirable

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 9/3/15 4:56 AM, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 19:29 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan >>> Creekmore >>> and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and >

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.09.15 at 19:50, wrote: > * target only the xen/ directory tree (i.e. not the toolstack, stubdoms > or docs) As just said in another reply, allowing for ./configure to pass down options to the configure mechanism in xen/ would seem desirable (as long as configuring in xen/ alone would st

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 03.09.15 at 12:09, wrote: > At 10:56 +0100 on 03 Sep (1441277769), Ian Campbell wrote: >> Is the proposal here then to abandon autoconf for the tools subtree in >> favour of Kconfig? Or maybe to somehow hybridize autoconf (for e.g. library >> and feature detection) with Kconfig (for user se

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Tim Deegan
At 10:56 +0100 on 03 Sep (1441277769), Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 19:29 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > > On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > > I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan > > > Creekmore > > > and myself have talked with a few maintainers

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Ian Campbell
On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 19:29 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: > > I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan > > Creekmore > > and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and > > on IRC about potentially using Kconfig

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-03 Thread Tim Deegan
Hi, At 12:50 -0500 on 02 Sep (1441198200), Doug Goldstein wrote: > I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore > and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and > on IRC about potentially using Kconfig and/or Kbuild for Xen. If we're going to ne

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-02 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 02/09/2015 21:28, Doug Goldstein wrote: > On 9/2/15 1:29 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: >> On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: >>> I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore >>> and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and >>> on IRC about p

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-02 Thread Doug Goldstein
On 9/2/15 1:29 PM, Andrew Cooper wrote: > On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: >> I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore >> and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and >> on IRC about potentially using Kconfig and/or Kbuild for Xen. B

Re: [Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-02 Thread Andrew Cooper
On 02/09/15 18:50, Doug Goldstein wrote: > I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore > and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and > on IRC about potentially using Kconfig and/or Kbuild for Xen. Basically > I would like to get a rough idea o

[Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

2015-09-02 Thread Doug Goldstein
I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and on IRC about potentially using Kconfig and/or Kbuild for Xen. Basically I would like to get a rough idea on what the Xen community wants the system to look