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Date:      Mon, 28 May 2007 15:01:01 +0200
From:      Rink Springer <rink@FreeBSD.org>
To:        arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   FreeBSD/xen structure
Message-ID:  <20070528130101.GD48357@rink.nu>

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Hi everyone,

As I've just mailed to current@, work is well underway on the Xen
porting effort. However, as not only I but a lot of people will want to
see this work integrated into CURRENT at some point, I'd like to raise a
discussion on the directory layout I'm using. It has not changed from
Kip Macy's perforce tree, but I want to ensure that this will be
suitable for inclusion in the tree.

Basically, i386-xen (it's i386 only for now) is a sub-architecture just
like pc98. The layout is the following:

 i386-xen/		Xen main tree
	compile/	Compile tree
	conf/		Kernel configs
 	i386-xen/	Low-level code, comparable to i386/i386/
	include/	Include files - most include their i386/include/
			version, but some are different or extended.

This is basically the machine-dependant stuff. Should a port of amd64-xen
happen in the future, it would go using a simular directory layout.

Xen-dependant but architecture-independant drivers (such as the Xen
block device drivers) are put in the dev/xen directory. It should be
possible to use these drivers in a amd64-xen version as well.

I'd prefer to keep Xen in a i386-xen tree, as there are quite a lot of
changes, comparable to the amd64 <-> i386 split. And I am sure we are
not really in favour for douzens of #ifdef XEN's in the tree.

Are there any questions, comments, remarks etc. on this layout? You can
inspect the work in perforce (//projects/xen3); currently, none of my
changes have been committed, but the layout is the same.

Thanks,

-- 
Rink P.W. Springer                                - http://rink.nu
"It is such a quiet thing, to fall. But yet a far more terrible thing,
 to admit it."                                    - Darth Traya



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