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Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 08:25:17 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [RFC] Bring in all the Linux headers we depend on
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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 04 May 2009, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>   
>> Right, but if you e.g. try to build a newer qemu-kvm on F10, you
>> currently need newer kvm kernel headers - IMHO, we should use #ifdef to
>> allow newer qemu-kvm build with older kvm headers.
>>     
>
> I think the kvm and virtio headers should just be shipped with
> qemu-kvm in their latest versions, rather than relying on the
> ones from the kernel. Everything else should come from the
> distro-supplied glibc kernel headers.
>   

Just to reiterate, because I should have mentioned it in the original 
note, we need virtio to be buildable on non-Linux systems so those 
headers must not depend on having distro glibc headers.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> 	Arnd <><
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