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

[Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>]

Jerone Young wrote:

  

>> 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.
>
>   

Maybe a README.dev can help the first-timers.  I'm concerned about the 
old-timers' tab key.

>> 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

Okay.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function


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