Re: [PATCH RFC 1/6] [HACK!] arm64/xen: create links to arch/arminclude files and Xen code

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Fri May 31 2013 - 08:02:34 EST


On Fri, 31 May 2013, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, May 30, 2013 at 05:18:28PM +0100, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> > Most of Xen support for ARM is common between ARMv7 and ARMv8.
> > Create links to the code under arch/arm (bleah).
> >
> > Other, probably better alternatives:
> >
> > - move the code to a different location, maybe the header files to
> > include/xen/arm and the code to drivers/xen/arm (still pretty ugly)?
> >
> > - create a copy of the code to arch/arm64 (even worse);
>
> KVM handles this in the Makefile by referencing back to arch/arm or even
> the generic kvm directory. I think that's the 'cleanest' ;)

Do you mean creating links in the Makefile or generating header file
copies from the Makefile?
Or do you mean using something like "-I arch/arm/include/asm/xen" in the
arch/arm64 Makefile?

I tried to find exactly what KVM is doing but I couldn't find the code
you are talking about..
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