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From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC for-4.7] Switching to a single qemu tree each
	per qemu-xen and qemu-trad
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2015 16:51:00 +0200
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Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com> writes:

> (CC-ing 2x QEMU maintainers and stable release manager)
>
> The separate trees are a holdover from mercurial, which didn't (at the
> time) have a good in-repo branching model.
>
> I propose that Xen 4.6 should be the last release which uses these split
> trees and that instead we combine them into just qemu-xen.git (upstream)
> and qemu-xen-traditional.git (our old fork)

(sorry my question is a bit unrelated)

is there a proposed time frame for the retirement of
qemu-xen-traditional? http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/QEMU_Upstream only
mentions VGA passthrough as a missing feature but maybe it can be fixed
for 4.7?

-- 
  Vitaly