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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for May 03rd
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC00CC5.9020800@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBFFE26.5040707@codemonkey.ws>

On 2011-05-03 15:07, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 08:04 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-05-03 12:21, Juan Quintela wrote:
>>>
>>> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
>>>
>>
>> Provided there will be more topics:
>>   - import kvm headers into qemu, drop #ifdef maze
> 
> This has come up a few times in the past.
> 
> The opposition tends to be that it would make feature development harder 
> because you couldn't easily point QEMU at a different set of kernel headers.

There should be no need to worry, even if for those bits that will
continue to change more frequently. I've included a hopefully easy to
use update mechanism.

> 
> These days, so few things change in the KVM interface though that maybe 
> it's not the end of the world.

PowerPC and future KVM arch will go through the same changes that x86
should be through now. So I would prefer to avoid the mistakes we made
for the latter.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	"quintela@redhat.com" <quintela@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for May 03rd
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:10:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DC00CC5.9020800@siemens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DBFFE26.5040707@codemonkey.ws>

On 2011-05-03 15:07, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 08:04 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2011-05-03 12:21, Juan Quintela wrote:
>>>
>>> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
>>>
>>
>> Provided there will be more topics:
>>   - import kvm headers into qemu, drop #ifdef maze
> 
> This has come up a few times in the past.
> 
> The opposition tends to be that it would make feature development harder 
> because you couldn't easily point QEMU at a different set of kernel headers.

There should be no need to worry, even if for those bits that will
continue to change more frequently. I've included a hopefully easy to
use update mechanism.

> 
> These days, so few things change in the KVM interface though that maybe 
> it's not the end of the world.

PowerPC and future KVM arch will go through the same changes that x86
should be through now. So I would prefer to avoid the mistakes we made
for the latter.

Jan

-- 
Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT T DE IT 1
Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-03 14:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-03 10:21 KVM call agenda for May 03rd Juan Quintela
2011-05-03 10:21 ` [Qemu-devel] " Juan Quintela
2011-05-03 13:04 ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 13:04   ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 13:07   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-03 13:07     ` Anthony Liguori
2011-05-03 14:10     ` Jan Kiszka [this message]
2011-05-03 14:10       ` Jan Kiszka
2011-05-03 14:02   ` Jes Sorensen
2011-05-03 14:02     ` Jes Sorensen

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