linux-kernel - Re: CONFIG_XEN dependencies

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Message-ID: <471F965B.6090200@goop.org>
Date:	Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:00:43 -0700
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Jan Beulich <jbeulich@...ell.com>
CC:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...source.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CONFIG_XEN dependencies

Jan Beulich wrote:
> The specific goal is to be able to enable the XEN option in our native kernel,
> which gets configured with M586. So we could live with XEN depending on
> X86_CMPXCHG, but would definitely need the dependency on X86_TSC
> dropped. Nevertheless I'd favor even X86_CMPXCHG dropped unless that
> causes unresolvable (or difficult to resolve) problems.

Seems reasonable.  Do you have a patch?

    J

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