Re: XEN kernels suggestion

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 06:15:06PM +0100, Juan RP wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> now that Manuel added support for NetBSD/Xen on amd64, I think it's
> time to not duplicate more config kernels. IMHO we'd have to derive
> XEN*_DOM* from GENERIC and INSTALL_XEN*_DOM* from INSTALL if possible.
> 
> Any objection? if nobody volunteers to do that, I might be able to do it.

It may be doable for DOM0 kernels, where most devices are shared with
GENERIC (but I suspect it would be a bit messy anyway), but for Xen domU and
INSTALL kernels I'm not sure it's doable. No devices from GENERIC or INSTALL
are relevant for Xen DomU kernels. 

I'd rarther see a file per bus type (ISA, EISA, etc) to be included
in kernel configs that needs them. Then we could have XEN*_DOM0 be derived
from XEN*_DOMU.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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