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[David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>]

David Brown wrote:
> I've been doing a lot of work with xen at work and it's given me some
> thought again on how to integrate the kernel part into the linux
> spell.  I've made a xen patch for the linux kernel and can put it into
> the linux spell.  However, this would deprecate the current
> xen-kernels spell (kinda). The hyporvisor still needs to be built, so
> one could just remove the kernel building part from xen-kernels so it
> only builds the hyporvisor. The xen-tools spell would remain
> untouched.  If no one has any thoughts on this I'll put it in my queue
> of 'Source Mage Things ToDo' and get to it when I get to it.
> 
> - David Brown

IIRC, the xen-kernels spell doesn't work with xen 3.0+ It never has.
Jeremy made an attempt to work on it once, but I don't recall what came
to fruition out of that. Unfortunately, separating the build process
isn't exactly trivial, as xen 3.0+ also builds an initrd.

I'm really tired and grouchy right now, so my answers are short. But if
you think you can do it go for it :) just be prepared for plenty of
headaches.

David

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