From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6OsT-0004c7-FE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 08:57:05 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6OsO-0004bF-QG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 08:57:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53146 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6OsO-0004bC-Ja for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 08:57:00 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:7667) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6OsO-0003KA-6G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 08:57:00 -0400 Received: from mail-qy0-f111.google.com ([209.85.221.111]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6OsM-0004A5-Ps for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 19 May 2009 08:56:58 -0400 Received: by qyk9 with SMTP id 9so6302958qyk.4 for ; Tue, 19 May 2009 05:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A12AC94.9060101@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 07:56:52 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Native Port of QEMU to Haiku References: <7861078417-BeMail@haiku> In-Reply-To: <7861078417-BeMail@haiku> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Michael Lotz Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Michael Lotz wrote: > Hi there > > I'm one of the developers that work on the Haiku OS and have also been > maintaining the BeOS/Haiku port of QEMU for the last couple of years. > Due to BeOS being locked into GCC 2.95.3 and our commitment to provide > binary compatibility with BeOS R5 in the first Haiku release, getting > this port to work and maintaining it has been a lot of work and largely > just a hack. > > Haiku however also has a native GCC 4.3.3 toolchain since some time and > I brought the QEMU port up to date using it. Since QEMU is pure C, it > was possible to mix the Haiku display part and audio backend compiled > with GCC 2.95.3 with a GCC 4.3.3 compiled QEMU core (this doesn't > require any code changes and will simply continue to work once we > migrate fully to GCC 4). This made it possible to do a much cleaner > port that I think could now also be commited into the QEMU repository. > > Since BeOS is not going anywhere and since it is stuck with the old > GCC, I've removed all the leftovers from the original BeOS port so the > final patch simply adds native Haiku support to QEMU. > > The patch linked below is against the 0.10.4 release sources including > kqemu in a kqemu subdirectory. Please advice if you would be willing to > include this work into your repository. If necessary I can split this > up into multiple patches providing more detailed info on the different > parts or diff it against more current sources. Please just let me know. > > http://haiku.mlotz.ch/qemu-0.10.4-haiku.diff > To even consider this, you have to send this to the mailing list as a series of patches either inlined or attached as plain text. A URL to a file with a non-text mime encoding is not easily reviewable. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Regards > Michael > > >