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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu baseline requirements/portability?
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 07:30:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ef47jn6n.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aaf15ebe-7442-2e25-d533-c40c2e2df8cb@zytor.com> (H. Peter Anvin's message of "Wed, 5 Jun 2019 13:46:48 -0700")

"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> On 6/5/19 12:55 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I am writing some code I'm hoping will be able to make it into Qemu, but I
>> can't seem to find what the baseline portability requirements are.  I'm
>> specifically wondering about newer POSIX features like openat(), which seems
>> to be used in the 9p filesystem and nowhere else, and what version of glib one
>> can rely on?
>> 
>
> Specifically, I'm trying to satisfy a 10-year-old request by me and others to
> support composite initrd during Linux boot.

Please peruse qemu-doc.texi @appendix Supported build platforms.  If it
doesn't fully answer your question, ask for clarification here.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-06  5:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-05 19:55 [Qemu-devel] Qemu baseline requirements/portability? H. Peter Anvin
2019-06-05 20:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2019-06-06  5:30   ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
2019-06-06  9:48     ` Daniel P. Berrangé

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