[Xen-devel] Kbuild and Kconfig

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I just wanted to bring this to a top level post since Jonathan Creekmore
and myself have talked with a few maintainers in different threads and
on IRC about potentially using Kconfig and/or Kbuild for Xen. Basically
I would like to get a rough idea on what the Xen community wants the
system to look like before starting work on it to both save myself time
and save maintainers review cycles. So that being said rough proposal as
follows:

* target only the xen/ directory tree (i.e. not the toolstack, stubdoms
or docs)
* split top level config bits to not affect xen/ tree (currently only
XSM_ENABLE / FLASK_ENABLE do)
* convert xen/ to Kbuild first and merge this in (since Kconfig relies
on Kbuild-y bits which can be undone but if we're going to go to Kbuild
in the end why undo it and then redo it)
* convert existing xen/ config bits into Kconfig and merge that in

Jonathan and I, in a former life, converted a project to Kbuild and
Kconfig successfully. I have looked at starting with
https://github.com/masahir0y/kbuild_skeleton while the tree is fairly
old it does separate out the build bits from the Linux specific bits
pretty nicely while removing module support which arguably is the most
complicated part. Alternatively we could start with Linux 4.2 if that's
more desirable.

Thanks.
-- 
Doug Goldstein

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