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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3 - qemu-kvm stable-1.0] Fix conditional build of
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 13:03:51 +1000
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> > An equivalent of this is already in qemu-kvm master as commit id
> > 20ad1def644494f5055d129961d46b050c0a6158
> 
> What is the interest of patching qemu-kvm for non-x86? It is not
> supposed to be used for this. And the affected bits are history in 1.1
> (or 1.2 latest). Are there distros proving QEMU based on qemu-kvm for
> non-x86 hosts?

Fedora uses qemu-kvm as their "upstream" qemu source tree for all qemu
builds, KVM and non-KVM ones, for all targets.

These fixes are necessary to make qemu in fc17 (and later) to build
ppc64-softmmu targets (with and without KVM).

Cheers,
Ben.