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

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

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.

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

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