From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MBNUg-0000va-Bh for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:29:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MBNUa-0000v0-Tc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:29:05 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=58007 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MBNUa-0000ux-LR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:29:00 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:56430) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MBNUa-0006eW-97 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:29:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4A24C6A2.6070007@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:28:50 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Killing KQEMU References: <20090602035217.GA16574@foursquare.net> <4A24A806.4060609@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <4A24A806.4060609@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Chris Frey Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Avi Kivity wrote: >> I find it hard to believe that these 674 lines of code are too much for >> the substantial braintrust available on this list. >> > > kqemu is a lot larger than 674 lines; what you're looking at is > probably the glue module from the pre-GPL days that loads into the > kernel and links into the real kqemu which was supplied as a binary. kqemu weighs in at more than 14,000 lines of pretty complicated code. -- Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.