Subject: Re: leftovers
To: Chuck Silvers <chuq@chuq.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-xen
Date: 05/29/2005 12:54:48
On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 09:17:57PM -0700, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> I was looking into fixing all the pmaps to pay attention to the
> flags args to pmap_enter() (PR 25640), and I noticed that the xen/i386
> pmap has a pmap_enter_ma() function that has the same problem but
> is apparently unused.  is there any reason to keep this around?

Probably not, especially if it is broken.

> 
> I also noticed that there are various other remnants of the separate
> xen release (eg. distrib/xen, etc/etc.xen).  now that xen is part of
> the i386 release, is there any reason to keep these other bits around?

No, I removed them (and also support for MACHINE=xen in build.sh).
Thanks !

> 
> it seems to me that it also might be better to move the i386 xen bits
> from arch/xen/i386 to arch/i386/xen, and move the xen-specific device
> drivers from arch/xen/xen to dev/xen or somesuch, but I'll leave that
> for someone else.

Sure. We'll need that when Xen supports other architectures than i386. But
there is more cleanup needed than just moving the files.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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