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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, ak@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
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Subject: Re: arch/xen is a bad idea
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:36:36PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
> > Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm not convinced that maintaining xen/i386 in its current form
> > >  is going to be as hard as Andi thinks. We already share many
> > >  files unmodified from i386.
> > 
> > How are they shared?  Inclusion, symlinks, makefile references or
> 
> The makefile creates symlinks. 

That's deprecated because it breaks with separate objdirs (make O=/other/dir) 
See the x86-64 makefiles on how to do it properly. 

-Andi