Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

["Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 07:56:02PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> On 5 September 2010 19:51, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:
> >  On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
> >>
> >>>> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features in
> >>>> qemu
> >>>> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is it
> >>>> useful
> >>>> for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial
> >>>> work
> >>>> needs something faster than tcg.
> >>>
> >>> Riiight.. Here's a story, my work duties required me to fiddled with
> >>
> >> More examples of industrial use are Nokia and Palm using OpenEmbedded
> >> building firmware for their phones, which afaik I relies for some
> >> parts on qemu (just some parts, so the tcg performance doesn't impact
> >> overall performance that much).  There are many more users of OE, but
> >> these two have products in shops near me.
> >
> > Well, both these examples are very far from the typical end user or even
> > typical developer.
> 
> Some of the industrial users include all of their "app developers"
> which count in big numbers.  Now I haven't installed Nokia or Palm's
> SDKs but Poky's SDK (OE-based) does include qemu.  So I wouldn't be
> surprised if the number of deployments is bigger than system mode
> qemu.

I agree, removing linux-user emulation doesn't make any sense to me.

Cheers