From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Baumann <Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Andrey Shedel <ashedel@microsoft.com>,
Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition variable with native primitives
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:26 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2057576564.7252834.1490394326811.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170324220141.10104-1-Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>
> The major implication of this patch is that it drops support for
> pre-Vista versions of Windows. However, those OSes are past their end
> of life, and other OSS projects have dropped support. e.g.; the last
> Cygwin release supporting XP was in Jun 2016. It doesn't seem like a
> good tradeoff to invest effort in fixing broken code needed to support
> them, so hopefully this isn't too controversial.
Certainly fine by me!
The original reason to introduce these was that Wine didn't
support SRWLocks, but now it does.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-24 22:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-24 22:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition variable with native primitives Andrew Baumann
2017-03-24 22:25 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-03-24 22:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-24 23:14 ` Andrew Baumann
2017-03-25 10:14 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-25 17:43 ` Andrey Shedel
2017-03-24 22:30 ` Eric Blake
2017-04-03 14:20 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-04-03 18:12 ` Andrew Baumann
2017-04-04 6:35 ` Cornelia Huck
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