From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
To: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:13:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49FEE9EC.6060604@codemonkey.ws> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FE9069.7010201@mail.berlios.de>
Stefan Weil wrote:
> Anthony Liguori schrieb:
>
>
> For Debian systems, those headers are installed by package linux-libc-dev.
> There are also packages for cross compilation in emdebian
> (linux-libc-dev-mips-cross, linux-libc-dev-powerpc-cross, ...).
>
> Yes, those headers did not always match the features of the current kernel,
> so --enable-kvm did not work. This is fixed now - there is a linux-libc-dev
> 2.6.29-3 which is up-to-date.
>
> So, at the moment I see no need to fill the QEMU source tree with
> linux header files.
>
We can not just rely on everyone who uses QEMU to use the latest version
of Debian...
The fact is, linux-libc-dev is *not* meant for applications to use as
the official kernel ABI. We shouldn't depend on it.
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-04 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-03 21:37 [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 6:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Stefan Weil
2009-05-04 8:17 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-05-04 13:15 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:44 ` Edgar E. Iglesias
2009-05-04 13:13 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-05-04 13:28 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 13:30 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 14:01 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 14:27 ` Lennart Sorensen
2009-05-04 7:52 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 9:35 ` Paul Brook
2009-05-04 13:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 9:08 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 12:42 ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-05-04 13:01 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-04 13:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:26 ` [Qemu-devel] " Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 13:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:40 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-04 13:21 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04 13:38 ` Avi Kivity
2009-05-04 14:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-04 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
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