Re: [Qemu-devel] Minimal Qemu build for Plan9

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 04:00:05AM -0400, Ashish Kaila wrote:
> Additionally if someone could point me to a to-do list of things to look out
> for while porting Qemu on a new platform (new OS/hardware), I would be
> extremely grateful.

Has glib been ported to Plan 9?  You need it since much of QEMU uses
this library.

I guess the code you'll need to port are timers, thread pools, signal
handling, thread-local storage and pthread usage, and maybe some
mmap/mprotect calls.

QEMU uses a coroutines implementation which is done using
makecontext()/sigsetjmp()/siglongjmp() on Linux.  Other OSes have their
own coroutine implementations (see coroutine-*.c).

This port is a lot of work.  If you want to upstream the patches,
consider if you're willing to test and maintain Plan 9 support in the
long term.  Since QEMU is actively developed just getting a port merged
isn't enough, you need to stay involved and continue maintaining it
otherwise the port would bitrot/need to be dropped.

Stefan