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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Baumann <Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Andrey Shedel <ashedel@microsoft.com>,
	Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition variable with native primitives
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2017 18:25:26 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2057576564.7252834.1490394326811.JavaMail.zimbra@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170324220141.10104-1-Andrew.Baumann@microsoft.com>


> The major implication of this patch is that it drops support for
> pre-Vista versions of Windows. However, those OSes are past their end
> of life, and other OSS projects have dropped support. e.g.; the last
> Cygwin release supporting XP was in Jun 2016. It doesn't seem like a
> good tradeoff to invest effort in fixing broken code needed to support
> them, so hopefully this isn't too controversial.

Certainly fine by me!

The original reason to introduce these was that Wine didn't
support SRWLocks, but now it does.

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-24 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-24 22:01 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] win32: replace custom mutex and condition variable with native primitives Andrew Baumann
2017-03-24 22:25 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-03-24 22:28 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-24 23:14   ` Andrew Baumann
2017-03-25 10:14     ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-03-25 17:43       ` Andrey Shedel
2017-03-24 22:30 ` Eric Blake
2017-04-03 14:20 ` Cornelia Huck
2017-04-03 18:12   ` Andrew Baumann
2017-04-04  6:35     ` Cornelia Huck

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