Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>]

Gerd Hoffmann, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 16:18:51 +0200, a écrit :
> Samuel Thibault wrote:
> > But by having it merged into just upstream qemu you won't magically get
> > Xen people actually test it, so it would be mostly dead code.
> > 
> >> Pretty much like upstreaming the xen support into the linux kernel.
> > 
> > There's a big difference here.  The upstream linux kernel merge won't be
> > merged back to the linux-2.6.18 tree.
> 
> Oh, we can also arrange things without merging back.  Stop rebasing
> qemu-dm (pretty much like 2.6.18), additionally hook upstream qemu as-is
> into testing (like pv_ops kernels).  Then start submitting patches to
> qemu.  When done, zap old qemu-dm.

Again, there's a difference.  The interface between Linux and Xen has
always been meant to be a "public" thing.  The interface between ioemu
and the other xen components has not, and changing it is considered fine
(we still do it).  Sure that could be cleaned up, but that's probably
not something that should happen on the upstream qemu side.

Samuel