On 24 February 2015 at 00:27, Antti Kantee <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been talking about unifying rumprun-xen and rumprun-baremetal for a
> while.  I didn't really know what we should do with rumprun-posix before
> Justin's promising frankenlibc work started.  Now it looks like all three
> will fit under a single roof.  This email opens discussion.

> I propose that we import all code from both -xen and -baremetal (*) directly
> into the rumprun repository, and deprecate the specific repos.  Then we
> start making the common bits actually common bits.
>
> *) -posix will be discussed in a separate mail which I'm not sending tonight

Not sure it makes sense to do this not in the context of posix. I am
planning to try to merge baremetal into posix/frankenlibc, rather than
the other way round, probably post Japan.


> That way we get the common unified bits without the hassle of submodule
> updates.  It will also make it very easy to automatically test all platforms
> with a commit trigger.

It doesnt actually make it easier as one builds for i386 and one for
x86_64 so will have to treat them as two independent builds anyway.

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