Re: Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

[Jerone Young <jyoung5@us.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:00 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Jerone Young wrote:
> > The top level directory of kvm-userspace is starting to get a little
> > crowded as we start to bring in more external dependencies. Perhaps we
> > can create a folder "tools" and move directories:
> > bios
> > extboot
> > vgabios 
> >
> > The reason I mention this is soon I will be sending a patch to the list
> > soon that will add libfdt (which is a library to read device trees for
> > ppc) as a dependency for qemu .. and it's another directory at the top
> > level, there will most likely be more libs and tools added in the
> > future. 
> >
> > Not sure if "tools" is the best name .. maybe "external_libs" .. not
> > sure .. but just a place to put external dependencies for qemu whould be
> > a good thing.
> >
> >   
> 
> I don't really see why we need to keep the top-level directory small.

I think it's more of a personal thing. Mainly do it for anyone who is
getting into the project for the first time. Once you've been doing it
for a while it's no issue.. but first time your trying to figure out
what is "vgabios" and is it related to kvm .. well it's actually more
related to qemu (which kvm happens to use)... cases like that .. but
really it's not a big deal .. just figured I'd see what folks thought
about the idea.

> 
> However, why do we need libfdt?  Is it not carried by distros, or do you 
> need to make changes?

Well it actually isn't distributed with each distro .. sigh .. actually
this comes from a tool called dtc, compiles/decompiles a device tree.
Even the linux kernel has it's own version of libfdt ... so it's not
exactly a central coordinated effort. It's something that kind of gets
passed from project to project but never stand alone. So we kind of have
to do the same.

> 


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