From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gustavo Zacarias Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 07:06:50 -0300 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-system: new host package In-Reply-To: <20131204094419.6d4d4279@skate> References: <1386117649-7119-1-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <1386117649-7119-2-git-send-email-gustavo@zacarias.com.ar> <20131204094419.6d4d4279@skate> Message-ID: <529EFEBA.8040103@zacarias.com.ar> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net On 12/04/2013 05:44 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > The first question that comes to mind is why we have a separate > "qemu-system" package for this, instead of improving the existing > "qemu" package, which already builds Qemu for the host, but only builds > the user emulation mode? Version freedom to begin with, for the system emulation you sometimes need a special version (example: sparc won't work with 1.7.0) that might not be the latest. You might also want this freedom for user emulation, but then nobody guarantees you'll match system for a given architecture. Then i also don't know what to do with the user variant, if it's going to be used for anything or what (it's an orphan now) - maybe killing user is an option and replace it by system? Regards.