[MirageOS-devel] Fwd: [Xen-devel] RFC: Cleaning up the Mini-OS namespace

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas(L),

What's the status of your minios-as-a-library patches that we currently
have in mirage-xen-minios?  They never got applied upstream did they?

-anil

> Begin forwarded message:
> 
> Date: 5 December 2014 18:31:53 GMT
> From: Martin Lucina <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> To: Antti Kantee <pooka@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, 
> rumpkernel-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>, 
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson 
> <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini 
> <stefano.stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] RFC: Cleaning up the Mini-OS namespace
> 
> pooka@xxxxxx said:
>> I wonder if work is minimized if we attempt to merge before or after
>> we (I?) take the carving knife for a second round in the rumprun-xen
>> repo to minimize MiniOS to run only on top of itself.
> 
> Before, I think. Minimizing our copy of Mini-OS duplicates what we would
> need to do to the upstream copy.
> 
> I think the steps are roughly as follows:
> 
>  a) split the current rumprun-xen build out of the Mini-OS Makefile.
>  b) replace our fork of Mini-OS with the vanilla upstream Mini-OS.
>  c) re-apply my work and your work, while checking things keep working
>  with upstream xen.git, until we get rumprun-xen working again.
> 
> c) will leave us with a set of patches to upstream.
> 
> Does this make sense? It's a fair amount of work but mostly retracing steps
> we've already done.
> 
> It'd help if we had a full list of "what exactly needs to keep working
> upstream", see my other reply to Andrew. Maybe also osstest building and
> running Mini-OS related tests off our branch while we do the work? (Ian:
> ping? Doable?)
> 
> Martin
> 


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