On 24.02.2011, at 18:59, Anthony Liguori wrote: > On 02/24/2011 11:46 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2011-02-24 18:27, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> On 02/24/2011 10:25 AM, Anthony PERARD wrote: >>> >>>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 16:11, Anthony Liguori<anth...@codemonkey.ws> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> Is this really necessary? The advantage to building globally is that it >>>>> keeps the code from getting unnecessary i386-isms. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Nop, is not necessary, I add this patch after this mail: >>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-12/msg00044.html >>>> >>>> >>> Alex, do you feel strongly here? >>> >> I'm not Alex, but I brought this issue up: >> >> Either build xen bits once for all archs or restrict it to the only >> foreseeable arch with support in qemu. But please don't built it for >> each and every target separately. >> > > Oh yes, I misunderstood. I thought we had previously built it for all > architectures. Yes, we should only build it once.
There's really no point in building it for anything but x86. Xen has never had been broadly used in PV mode on non-x86. Not sure ports even exist. Alex
