Re: [MirageOS-devel] Cleaning up the Mini-OS namespace; coordinating development

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Nov 2014, at 10:29, Martin Lucina <martin@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> (Cross-posting to rumpkernel-users at Antti's request)
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've been working on cleaning up the Mini-OS namespace so that we can build
> arbitrary unmodified software with rumprun-xen without running into
> namespace conflicts.
> 
> Given that MirageOS also uses Mini-OS for a similar purpose ("firmware
> layer" of a standalone Xen stack for building applications), you may be
> interested in picking these changes, and we could coordinate further
> development of Mini-OS as far as is practical.
> 
> Currently this work is more or less complete and available for review in
> the "wip-xenos" branch of my Github repository:
> 
> https://github.com/mato/rumprun-xen/tree/wip-xenos
> 
> The original discussion on the rumpkernel-users list can be found here:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.rumpkernel.user/514

This makes sense to me.  We use upstream MiniOS now (with some patches to
support installation as a library), so we don't need to do anything
special to benefit from your patches if you submit them upstream.  Have
you sent an RFC to xen-devel to get other people's reaction to this?  I
can't imagine it'll be too contentious if other uses (such as the qemu
stub domain) are also fixed up to support this.

-anil

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