Bug 137086

Summary:	XEN linux-2.6.16.18-xen/arch/xen directory missing
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Erik Logtenberg <erik>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	erik
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.0
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Erik Logtenberg 2006-06-17 08:26:48 UTC

The sys-kernel/xen-sources-2.6.12.6-r2 package had a /usr/src/linux-2.6.12.6-r2-xen/arch/xen directory, containing a Makefile etc, needed to make "make ARCH=xen ..." work.
Now, thw sys-kernel/xen-sources-2.6.16.18 package doesn't seem to have this /arch/xen directory anymore, so ARCH=xen no longer works. Now I can't find any documentation on how to build a XEN kernel without ARCH=xen, so I humbly assume that this is a bug?
If not, perhaps the howto on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xen_and_Gentoo could be updated to explicitly tell how to configure the kernel, since this is not very clear to me at the moment.

Kind regards,

Erik Logtenberg.

Comment 1 Erik Logtenberg 2006-06-17 11:36:24 UTC

Nevermind, the solution is to select the:
[*] Enable Xen compatible kernel
option under "Processor type and features". This is indeed changed since the previous package. Since the HOWTO is a Wiki, I'll update that myself.

Kind regards.