Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Laurent Desnogues wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> wrote:
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>> With respect to the various forks of QEMU, I believe the real problem is
>> that historically, people have had a tough time getting changes into QEMU.
>>  This is not just a matter of getting patches accepted, but also getting the
>> appropriate guidance about how to refactor things to take into account all
>> of the various architecture combinations that QEMU supports and some of the
>> longer term efforts.
>>
>> I hope this situation is improving.  If people have feedback in how things
>> could be improved, I think everyone is eager to here it.  Plugins are not
>> the solution though.
>>     
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> Sorry to say, but many forks are linux-user ones and qemu has no
> maintainer for that.  This might become even worse in the future
> with, for instance, Nokia using qemu linux-user for the SDK of their
> upcoming OMAP3 based tablet.
>   

Yeah, I understand that the linux-user stuff is currently unmaintained.  
Just appointing someone is really the right approach either.  With the 
kernel.org git mirror, it would be relatively easy for someone to 
maintain a linux-user tree.

If someone were to do that, they could post pull requests.  I think it's 
then natural to promote the maintainer of such a tree to an official 
maintainer.

It just requires someone willing to put in the time.  git is not the 
only option, just maintaining a patch queue for linux-user would be a 
good start too.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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