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

[Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 21:25 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> > I think it's obvious that Linux and uboot will never use this. Unless
> > someone steps up to continue PowerPC Xen development, neither will Xen.
> > So you've now narrowed down the use case to dtc (which is libfdt
> > upstream) and qemu.
> >   
> 
> Is Xen ppc discontinued?

I have no plans to continue development; I can't speak for anybody else.

> > Whose problem are you trying to solve? It doesn't seem to be one that
> > any existing users have. If you want to push it, you should probably
> > propose it on linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org , which is where libfdt is
> > discussed.
> >
> > I'm sure as hell not going to advocate creating a standalone library,
> > push it into every package that supports PowerPC, and then telling users
> > they must build on a supported version of a supported distribution.
> 
> It doesn't have to be a package; it can be as simple as a tarball that 
> people have to make; && sudo make install before compiling kvm, the same 
> as other prerequisite libraries.

Sure. Let's put that tarball inside the qemu directory, and then have it
extracted and built automatically when the user types "make".

I'm really not clear on what advantage you think will be gained here.

> The barrier should be whether we need to carry local changes or not.  If 
> we can use upstream as is, then it should be installed independently.

So let me get this straight... you think it's cool to awk kernel source,
but not to copy library code that was designed to be copied in the first
place? Seriously? Would it be more palatable to you if I ran awk over
arch/powerpc/boot/libdft?

-- 
Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center


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