Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4][RFC] Add module infrastructure toQEMU

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Avi Kivity wrote:
>> There's also the issue that shared libraries imply it's OK for third 
>> parties to ship binary plugins.
>>   
>
> Can't we add wording to LICENSE to address this?  I'd really like to 
> allow GPL plugins.  Linux and now gcc allow this.

There's a lot of technical work to actually support shared libraries on 
all the platforms QEMU supports.  Even if we had that, and I expect a 
big flame war wrt reinventing autoconf here too, in order to 
realistically talk about plugins, we would need a much more modular 
infrastructure than we have today to allow a config file to specify a 
particular device without any core knowledge in QEMU of that device.

It's an admirable goal but we're far away from that.  When we eventually 
get there, we still have the issue of stable ABI (and Linux has this too).

So, I don't think this is a debate that we need to have now.  There's 
plenty of work to do before we get there :-)

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori