Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] Add module infrastructure toQEMU

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Avi Kivity wrote:
>>> There's also the issue that shared libraries imply it's OK for third 
>>> parties to ship binary plugins.
>>>   
>>
>> Can't we add wording to LICENSE to address this?  I'd really like to 
>> allow GPL plugins.  Linux and now gcc allow this.
>
> There's a lot of technical work to actually support shared libraries 
> on all the platforms QEMU supports.  

We could enable that only on platforms that support it.

> Even if we had that, and I expect a big flame war wrt reinventing 
> autoconf here too, in order to realistically talk about plugins, we 
> would need a much more modular infrastructure than we have today to 
> allow a config file to specify a particular device without any core 
> knowledge in QEMU of that device.

No doubt.  But taking the first step may encourage people to work 
towards it.

>
> It's an admirable goal but we're far away from that.  When we 
> eventually get there, we still have the issue of stable ABI (and Linux 
> has this too).

That's fine, I think.  Not ideal but livable.


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