Re: [XenPPC] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 0/6][TOOLS][XM-TEST] [v2] Update xm-test to support new architectures

[Ewan Mellor <ewan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 10:20:36AM -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 13:23 +0100, Ewan Mellor wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:57:26PM +0800, Tony Breeds wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi All,
> > >   These patches update the xm-test code to be more easily portable
> > > to new architecture. This focus of this endeavor is PPC but I believe
> > > that IA64 also benefits.
> > > 
> > > Patch summary:
> > > 
> > >  1: Instead of using a dated snapshot (which no longer exists)
> > >     use buildroot-snapshot.
> > 
> > The last time I built a xm-test ramdisk, the buildroot-snapshot was broken,
> > and I had to go back a few days to find a working one.  I'm wary of using
> > buildroot-snapshot for that reason.  Does anyone work within the buildroot
> > community?  Perhaps we could persuade them to keep "released" versions 
> > around,
> > rather than just the expiring, daily snapshots?
> 
> Ewan, if you have some problem with patch 1/6, could you still apply the
> rest to xen-unstable? 2/6 wouldn't apply cleanly, but should be easy to
> do by hand.

I've got no particular problem with these patches (we'll host the
buildroot tar on xenbits, which was the only query).  The tree's
feature-frozen now though -- we're at RC2 -- so these will drop in
immediately after the release.

Ewan.

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