linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fix one dead link in ia64/xen.txt

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Date:   Mon, 26 Mar 2018 14:03:45 -0400
From:   慕冬亮 <mudongliangabcd@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@...rix.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com,
        Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@...too.org>, tony.luck@...el.com,
        Bjørn Forsman <bjorn.forsman@...il.com>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix one dead link in ia64/xen.txt

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:17 PM, Andrew Cooper
<andrew.cooper3@...rix.com> wrote:
> On 20/03/18 19:56, Dongliang Mu wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Dongliang Mu <mudongliangabcd@...il.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/ia64/xen.txt | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/xen.txt b/Documentation/ia64/xen.txt
>> index a12c74ce2773..464d4c29b8b5 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/ia64/xen.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/ia64/xen.txt
>> @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Getting and Building Xen and Dom0
>>      DomainU OS  : RHEL5
>>
>>   1. Download source
>> -    # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/xen-unstable.hg
>> -    # cd xen-unstable.hg
>> +    # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/xen-unstable
>> +    # cd xen-unstable
>>      # hg clone http://xenbits.xensource.com/ext/ia64/linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
>>
>>   2. # make world
>
> The last commit in that repository is almost 9 years old, and IA64
> support was dropped from Xen mainline6 years ago.
>
> http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=570c311ca2c7a1131570cdfc77e977bc7a9bf4c0
>
> There are a number of other dead links in this doc, and those which
> aren't dead refer to Linux 2.6.x.  I'd just remove the entire file,
> rather than pretend that any of this still might work.  (If by some
> miracle it does still function, its 10 years behind on security fixes...)
>

If the situation is like that, I agree to delete this file.

> ~Andrew