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Re: XenSummit: Empty per-arch files
- To: Shawn Anastasio <sanastasio@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- From: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 09:48:24 +0200
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- Cc: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@xxxxxxxxxx>, Wei Liu <wl@xxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>, Julien Grall <julien@xxxxxxx>, Volodymyr Babchuk <Volodymyr_Babchuk@xxxxxxxx>, Bobby Eshleman <bobbyeshleman@xxxxxxxxx>, Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xxxxxxx>, Connor Davis <connojdavis@xxxxxxxxx>, Oleksii Kurochko <oleksii.kurochko@xxxxxxxxx>, Timothy Pearson <tpearson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>, xen-devel <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Delivery-date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 07:48:30 +0000
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On 14.07.2023 22:52, Shawn Anastasio wrote:
> On 6/28/23 6:32 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote:
>> Hello,
>
> Hi Andrew,
>
>> This wasn't a formal discussion point at XenSummit, but Oleksii pointed
>> out that it was still a problem, hence this thread.
>>
>> As we take on more architectures, it becomes more and more important for
>> things to be handled in a mostly-common way. With that comes quite a
>> lot of <xen/foo.h> including <asm/foo.h>, and the arch one being a stub
>> in simple cases.
>>
>> It would be nice to get rid of the stub files; they're irritating to
>> deal with, both when refactoring and simply for the file bloat they create.
>
> This is definitely something that would be great to see from the Power
> side of things, especially as we're getting to the point where we'd like
> to start dropping the build overrides in arch.mk and building the rest
> of xen/common/.
>
> As we get to that point, I was wonder if upstream would be fine with
> submission of patches that add stub files for ppc in the interim, to be
> removed later when this proposal is finalized and a solution is decided
> upon. It'd obviously be best to avoid too much duplication of effort,
> but at the same time we'd like to avoid getting blocked on progressing.
I see no reason why for the time being you shouldn't add stub files; you
clearly shouldn't be forced to wait.
Jan
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