Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Import KVM headers including Makefile andimport script

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> These are the headers from Linux 2.6.29 that have been modified to 
>> work under
>> QEMU.  This includes the necessary scripts to generate the headers 
>> from the
>> original Linux source tree.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  configure                      |    7 +-
>>  include/HEAD                   |    1 +
>>  include/Makefile               |   26 ++
>>  include/README                 |    6 +
>>  include/asm-powerpc/kvm.h      |   55 ++++
>>  include/asm-powerpc/kvm_para.h |   37 +++
>>  include/asm-x86/kvm.h          |  218 ++++++++++++++++
>>  include/asm-x86/kvm_para.h     |  147 +++++++++++
>>  include/fixup.sed              |   11 +
>>  include/linux/kvm.h            |  533 
>> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>  include/linux/kvm_para.h       |   44 ++++
>>   
>
> Another comment: let's add this as two separate commits, one for the 
> configure/Makefile and one for the actual headers.  The headers are 
> generated files, after all, so we should follow the procedures we use 
> for other generated files like the bios.
>
> It also makes the first commit easy to cherry-pick across branches and 
> repositories.

Sure.  As I mention in the newer README, I expect that we can track the 
kernel more closely as long as we're in a development branch (x.y.50).  
We just need to make sure that we use kernel releases for QEMU 
releases.  I think this should work out well for qemu-kvm.git too, right?

This new patch also implements the need for -D__user in CFLAGS FWIW.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori