From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJKYA-0004VU-UC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:16:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HJKY9-0004VI-GK for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:16:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HJKY9-0004VF-Dj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:16:13 -0500 Received: from mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.4.196]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1HJKY9-0002iz-6G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:16:13 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.151] (ool-457143e1.dyn.optonline.net [69.113.67.225]) by mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTP id <0JDQ005A1OYZIPD0@mta1.srv.hcvlny.cv.net> for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:16:11 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:15:06 -0500 From: Christopher Olsen Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support In-reply-to: <20894890.1171937332995.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml08.mgt.cox.net> Message-id: <200702192115.06556.cwolsen@domainatlantic.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline References: <20894890.1171937332995.JavaMail.root@eastrmwml08.mgt.cox.net> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: sol10x86@cox.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Monday 19 February 2007 21:08, Ben Taylor wrote: > Having been in your shoes, the only thing I can tell you is start > small. Be able to justify your patches and change as little as > possible. Be smart about how you code things if there are > specific reasons. And get ready for a long haul. Be ready to > constantly be porting your changes through the CVS tree. > > I can tell you that you won't be able to submit a > > "This patch makes it work with FreeBSD" > > and have it accepted. > > Start with the configure script and Makefiles, and any very specfic, > targeted and small patches and let those changes slowly propogate out. > > HTH, > > Ben > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel Well that shouldn't be an issue... Plus I have particular interest in this project. That and I've stuck by QEMU because of it's significant performance over BOCHS as the PC emulator of choice when I developed my operating system -Christopher -- Christopher Olsen cwolsen@domainatlantic.com Tel: 631-676-4877 Fax: 631-249-3036