Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on in QEMU

Anthony Liguori
2009-05-04T13:25:20Z

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>
>> Right, but if you e.g. try to build a newer qemu-kvm on F10, you
>> currently need newer kvm kernel headers - IMHO, we should use #ifdef to
>> allow newer qemu-kvm build with older kvm headers.
>>
>
> I think the kvm and virtio headers should just be shipped with
> qemu-kvm in their latest versions, rather than relying on the
> ones from the kernel. Everything else should come from the
> distro-supplied glibc kernel headers.
>

Just to reiterate, because I should have mentioned it in the original
note, we need virtio to be buildable on non-Linux systems so those
headers must not depend on having distro glibc headers.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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