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Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 21:57:50 +0100
From: Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] OpenBSD build fixes
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On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 09:16:28PM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote:
> It would be good if we could get these patches into the mainline qemu. From
> here, there are a couple of more obviously OpenBSD-only patches that aren't
> suitable for the main qemu tree, and will need to be maintained seperately.

Aren't suitable for the main QEMU tree?  Why?

Is it somehow a *good* thing for upstream releases not to work OOTB under
the BSDs?  I really don't understand this...

(Or is the name "ports" being taken too literally?)

Cheers,
-- 
Stuart Brady