Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/5] Split off mini-os to a separate tree

[Thomas Leonard <talex5@xxxxxxxxx>]

[ Cc += Anil ]

On 25 January 2015 at 18:25, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Cc Ian and Ian and some folks who might be interested in this work.
>
> On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 06:13:41PM +0000, Wei Liu wrote:
>> There has been increasing use of mini-os in unikernel world and basically
>> everybody has their own fork of mini-os. That way going foward is going
>> to cause fragmentation of the community.
>>
>> We would like to split off mini-os tree so that everybody can upstream their
>> changes and work on a common code base. Later I would also like to setup
>> a proper push gate for mini-os.
>>
>> Stubdom's build environment is known to be very fragile, so basically all the
>> real work is done in top level Makefile.
>>
>> I use following runes to split off mini-os:
>>
>>   git filter-branch --tag-name-filter cat \
>>     --subdirectory-filter extras/mini-os/ -- --all
>>
>>   # There is already a tag name 4.3.0-rc2 which points to the same commit.
>>   git tag -d xen-4.3.0-rc2
>>
>>   # Add xen- prefix to all tags
>>   for t in `git tag`; do git tag "xen-$t" "$t"; git tag -d "$t" ; done
>>
>>   git gc --aggressive
>>
>> The tree can be found at:
>>   git://xenbits.xen.org/people/liuw/mini-os.git master
>>
>> Note that mini-os cannot build on its own due to the limitation of it's own
>> build system. Splitting it off it's the first step towards fixing that 
>> problem

In case it's useful: for the standalone version of Mini-OS used by
Mirage, I had to include these directories too:

1. xen/include/public
2. xen/common/libfdt
3. xen/include/xen/libfdt
4. config

( https://github.com/talex5/xen/tree/minios-releases )

Will there be a separate mailing list for Mini-OS? That would be very
useful for people who don't want to keep up with xen-devel.

Thanks!


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