Hi Elliott, On 7/18/20 5:53 AM, Elliott Mitchell wrote: > Package: src:xen > Version: 4.13 > Tags: patch > > I've been playing try to get Xen 4.13 to cross-build for ARM. In the > process I've been running into bunches of problems, so here are fixes.
Can you: * add a 'why' line to the commit message of the first patch * add Signed-off-by lines * and then mailbomb (git send-email) it to pkg-xen-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org with Cc to Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk>? Just all of it in 1 mail thread? (So, with 0/10 cover letter which does not have to contain anything else than something like 'Hi! See #965245, kthxbye'.) Then we can collect some Reviewed-by etc. > OCAML/xenstored is being problematic, that looks like outright bugs on > ocaml-nox making it unusable for cross-building. The cxenstored is also still there. The init scripts look if oxenstored is installed, and if not, it falls back to using normal xenstored. So, I suspect if you patch it out of the build for this arch, then no other changes are necessary. (Normally both are built now, so that if a user wants, in case of problems or whatever, they can switch back). > I'm including copies of 3 patches from Julien Grall. Upstream source for > this is: git://xenbits.xen.org/people/julieng/xen-unstable.git The > branch "arm-dma/v2". Ok, these patches are in Xen 4.14 I see. First thing I want to do going forward is forwarding the packaging to that. I hope this will also only make your life easier. Like I said on IRC, the two other things before we can push it to Debian experimental asap are making sure python 2 is not used any more anywhere, and of course a proper debian/changelog. :) And then making noise on the list to find users to try it out. And, a small pile of backlog of things that are waiting, and then hopefully not too long after the official Xen 4.14 release it can go into Debian unstable. But, keep the 3 upstream patches in the set for now, so that it's explicit that you need them for this. > Why yes, I am trying to get Xen operational on a Raspberry PI. Why do > you ask? :-) Haha. Exciting. I like it. Looking forward to see it working and help testing it here. I didn't do cross-building yet, so time to learn something new. Hans (Knorrie)
