Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] build: remove shim related targets

[Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 03:09:18PM +0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Roger Pau Monne writes ("[PATCH] build: remove shim related targets"):
> > There's no need to have shim specific targets, so just use the regular
> > xen makefile targets in order to build the shim binary.
> 
> I haven't been following this, mostly because I've been away, but:
> 
> Previously (in the Comet advice in the advisory, for example) we told
> people to run this special Makefile target, and that special Makefile
> target would rebuild the whole of the hypervisor in some special way.
> 
> Is that linkfarm and rebuild now no longer needed, then ?

That's still needed in order to build the shim with the right Kconfig
(which should be different from the Kconfig used for the bare metal
hypervisor build).

The main difference is that we can get rid of the shim related
makefile targets inside of xen/ because the same makefile targets can
be used to build a shim or a bare-metal version of Xen.

Thanks, Roger.

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