[Pkg-xen-devel] My Xen package plans/thoughts/ideas for Jessie

[Bastian Blank]

On Thu, Oct 04, 2012 at 09:54:40AM +0100, Ian Campbell wrote:
>       * UEFI support. Build and install the necessary hypervisor binary.
>         Integrate with bootloaders as necessary.

Can't it use the same binary for UEFI and BIOS like Linux does since a
long time?

>       * Enable ARM port. Depends on upstream progress of course, but
>         once this is in reasonable shape I'd obviously want to enable it
>         for armhf and arm64.

No problem.

>       * Toolstack virtual package, split existing package into common,
>         xm/xend and xl. xcp-xapi could also provide the virtual package
>         allowing only the desired toolstack to be installed.

Please describe this a bit more.

>       * Rejig the tools install targets to allow use of dh_install
>         --list-missing or --fail-missing. I'm not sure if this is
>         worthwhile but there's a small number of bugs filed about
>         missing this and that (e.g. man pages) which might have been
>         avoided if we could use these. This might be a case of trying it
>         and seeing.

Not sure what you think about. But please notice that the xen package
build both arch-all and other packages, so you can't move it into one
target.

Bastian

-- 
Ahead warp factor one, Mr. Sulu.