Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

[Christopher Olsen <cwolsen@domainatlantic.com>]

On Monday 19 February 2007 20:46, Paul Brook wrote:
> > This is a sidetrack here... But is it at all possible to make future
> > releases of the source more FreeBSD friendly?
>
> If someone puts in the effort to make it so, yes.
>
> Note that dumping the current patches from FreeBSD ports on the list is
> generally not sufficient. Blindly posting patches without explanation is a
> good way to get them ignored.
>
> All patches should include a description of what they are fixing (ie. what
> qemu currently does wrong), how the patch fixes it, and why this is the
> right way to fix it. For OS specific hacks there needs to be a good reason
> why that OS is special.
> If you can't answer all the above questions then you shouldn't be
> submitting the patch. In some cases you may need to rewriting the patches
> to meet these criteria. Individual OS/Distros tend to be less picky because
> they only care whether the result works on that one system.
>
> Paul
>
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Paul,

So should I make a separate patch for each modified file?

-Christopher

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