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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] signrom: Speed up checksum calculation
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To: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>
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On 01/23/2012 02:32 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> On 2012-01-23 21:08, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I've been thinking that we could potentially rewrite a large chunk
>> (all?) of configure in python too since we have such a hard 
>> dependency now.
[snip]
> However, I will now write signrom.py. That's much shorter.
>
> Jan

I think that will improve that script (and maybe configure later) a lot.
Let me just add a small remark:

We require python2 now, but please try to be compatible with python3
as far as possible. It  _is_ possible, at least to some degree
(I tried it with the existing QEMU scripts).

I don't believe that QEMU will stick to python2 forever, so avoiding
unnecessary incompatibilities now will save us time later.

Cheers,
Stefan