Re: [Qemu-devel] Native Port of QEMU to Haiku

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Michael Lotz wrote:
> Hi there
>
> I'm one of the developers that work on the Haiku OS and have also been 
> maintaining the BeOS/Haiku port of QEMU for the last couple of years. 
> Due to BeOS being locked into GCC 2.95.3 and our commitment to provide 
> binary compatibility with BeOS R5 in the first Haiku release, getting 
> this port to work and maintaining it has been a lot of work and largely 
> just a hack.
>
> Haiku however also has a native GCC 4.3.3 toolchain since some time and 
> I brought the QEMU port up to date using it. Since QEMU is pure C, it 
> was possible to mix the Haiku display part and audio backend compiled 
> with GCC 2.95.3 with a GCC 4.3.3 compiled QEMU core (this doesn't 
> require any code changes and will simply continue to work once we 
> migrate fully to GCC 4). This made it possible to do a much cleaner 
> port that I think could now also be commited into the QEMU repository.
>
> Since BeOS is not going anywhere and since it is stuck with the old 
> GCC, I've removed all the leftovers from the original BeOS port so the 
> final patch simply adds native Haiku support to QEMU.
>
> The patch linked below is against the 0.10.4 release sources including 
> kqemu in a kqemu subdirectory. Please advice if you would be willing to 
> include this work into your repository. If necessary I can split this 
> up into multiple patches providing more detailed info on the different 
> parts or diff it against more current sources. Please just let me know.
>
> http://haiku.mlotz.ch/qemu-0.10.4-haiku.diff
>   

To even consider this, you have to send this to the mailing list as a 
series of patches either inlined or attached as plain text.  A URL to a 
file with a non-text mime encoding is not easily reviewable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards
> Michael
>
>
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