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To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
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Ian Jackson wrote:
> These kind of patches are rather troublesome I'm afraid.
> 
> However in practice these changes are going to make it harder to merge
> the existing Xen code, because they do some but not all of the same
> things in a different way.  If these patches are merged into qemu
> upstream then I'll have to do a lot of untangling.

If the patches break something, report it and I'll fix it up.
"I'm afraid something might break" doesn't help us going forward.

> What I would prefer is if Gerd would submit a patch or patches to
> xen-devel, against our qemu, to factor out of the functionality needed
> by his code.  This should be done in a way that is both suitable for
> his needs and structurally sensible for the xen upstream tree.

http://kraxel.fedorapeople.org/patches/qemu-xen/
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-devel/2008-08/msg00887.html

cheers,
  Gerd