Re: [Buildroot] [PATCH] package/xen: bump to 4.21.1

John Ernberg via buildroot <[email protected]> Mon, 3 Aug 2026 12:50:16 +0000
Newsgroups net.busybox.buildroot
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Matthew,

On 8/1/26 9:57 PM, Matthew Weber wrote:
>>
>> I'm also not fully convinced the qemu-xen part is needed at all, Xen
>> does support system qemu, and looking at the commits the Xen project
>> did on top of the qemu version they picked here they are pretty much
>> only required for *BSD.
>> Have I overlooked something that would make a system qemu path inappropriate?
> 
> I mostly kept it separate after looking at the prior attempt at using
> system qemu.  It felt like adding that dependency between system qemu
> and xen could block updates to either package over time (e.g., if xen
> hadn't moved that far forward or other corner case conditions between
> upstream and Buildroot revs.)
> 

That makes sense to me. Thanks for the explanation.

Best regards // John Ernberg
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