[oe] New meta-xen layer

[Paul Eggleton]

On Friday 22 June 2012 17:04:34 Khem Raj wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 2:12 PM, Raymond Danks <ray.danks at se-eng.com> wrote:
> > I have constructed a layer for the purpose of building Xen in
> > OpenEmbedded.
> >  Xen is a hypervisor and associated tools running on Linux available as a
> > package in distributions such as Ubuntu and Fedora.  It is also modified
> > and included in the rpm-based Xen Cloud Platform distribution and Citrix
> > XenServer.
> > 
> > This layer currently includes recipes and recipe modifications for
> > building
> > xen, libvirt, and a minimal xen image that may be used for launching
> > virtual machines via the xl command line interface.  This currently
> > targets the x86 Xen host (OE target) architecture; development has been
> > done entirely on x86_64.
> > 
> > I'm open to receiving feedback, patches and suggestions.  Also, I'm
> > curious
> > if this layer may be published to the OpenEmbedded layer index and by what
> > process that should be achieved?
> 
> thanks for doing it and publishing it for community.
> looks pretty good from very quick look at the content
> 
>  recipes-core/initscripts/ has .swp file committed.
> NATIVE_INSTALL_WORKS is probably not needed in recipes
> use oe_runmake instead of ${MAKE}
> in some recipes you cache ac_cv_* vars you could use
> CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS variable to contain them all instead of putting
> them into EXTRA_OECONF
> 
> One think I am not sure is of is distro/minimal.conf in there. I dont
> know if you want to have your own distro or not if you do it would be
> nice to separate that out that way other distros can also use this
> layer if they want to.

FWIW, I'd agree with the suggested cleanups.

> As long as you maintain the layer in good shape and in alignment with
> other layers you depend on its should be fine and please add the entry
> into LayerIndex on wiki

I've just added the layer to the LayerIndex page. Thanks!

Cheers,
Paul

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre