[Qemu-devel] Re: KVM call agenda for Mar 23

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 03/23/2010 11:31 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Chris Wright wrote:
>>   
>>> Please send in any agenda items you are interested in covering.
>>>
>>> Yes, usability is a valid topic esp. if you promise to come w/ GUI
>>> patches.
>>>
>>>      
>> - state and roadmap for upstream merge of in-kernel device models
>>    (looks to me like this central merge effort is stalled ATM)
>>    
> 
> - alternative path of merging qemu-kvm.git's implementation as is and
> cleaning it up in qemu.git.
> 
> For kvm.git, I wouldn't dream of merging something with outstanding
> issues and cleaning them up "later", but the situation is somewhat
> different with qemu vs qemu-kvm.
> 

So the benefit would be less merge conflicts/regressions on
qemu-kvm.git? But you may break non-x86 KVM support in upstream as it
already uses the cleaned up kvm subsystem. /me is not immediately
convinced...

We are more than half-way through this, so let's focus efforts for the
last bits that make the difference widely negligible. This investment
should pay off rather quickly.

Jan


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