From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cYK-00020w-Bw for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:12 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cYJ-00020Z-FU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:11 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57802 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L8cYJ-00020Q-AI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:11 -0500 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.156]:47370) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L8cYI-000371-Up for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:25:11 -0500 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so29189ywa.82 for ; Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:25:10 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <493947D1.9010609@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:25:05 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Modular qemu? References: <3056442136ca43729c6a2aec02c038aa.squirrel@www.boonen.name> <49393B8D.40209@codemonkey.ws> <761ea48b0812050652p1608020fw93051708e7e95d14@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <761ea48b0812050652p1608020fw93051708e7e95d14@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Laurent Desnogues wrote: > On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 3:32 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> With respect to the various forks of QEMU, I believe the real problem is >> that historically, people have had a tough time getting changes into QEMU. >> This is not just a matter of getting patches accepted, but also getting the >> appropriate guidance about how to refactor things to take into account all >> of the various architecture combinations that QEMU supports and some of the >> longer term efforts. >> >> I hope this situation is improving. If people have feedback in how things >> could be improved, I think everyone is eager to here it. Plugins are not >> the solution though. >> > > Sorry to say, but many forks are linux-user ones and qemu has no > maintainer for that. This might become even worse in the future > with, for instance, Nokia using qemu linux-user for the SDK of their > upcoming OMAP3 based tablet. > Yeah, I understand that the linux-user stuff is currently unmaintained. Just appointing someone is really the right approach either. With the kernel.org git mirror, it would be relatively easy for someone to maintain a linux-user tree. If someone were to do that, they could post pull requests. I think it's then natural to promote the maintainer of such a tree to an official maintainer. It just requires someone willing to put in the time. git is not the only option, just maintaining a patch queue for linux-user would be a good start too. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Laurent > > >