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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On 08/17/2010 05:09 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> . There have been very few patches
>>> for Darwin, *Solaris, AIX or BSDs, non-x86 targets or non-x86 host
>>> CPUs. Without Darwin or BSD host support, darwin-user and bsd-user
>>> will be useless. When did we get Xen patches last time before the
>>> recent patch set?
>>>
>>>        
>> Let's put things in perspective though.  Win32 support has been in bad
>> shape for years and no one really seems to care.   It's been sorely
>> behind since at least when Fabrice introduced AIO support for Linux
>> without ever doing it properly in Windows.
>>      
> So what? If I were to choose between working code that is not on par
> with Linux or no code at all, I think I would pick the former.
>    

As I've said a few times already, code that is useful to anyone that is 
isolated and has no impact on common code is reasonable to keep forever.

But requiring everyone to consider Windows even though noone is actively 
working on it or even testing it seems a bit silly to me.  Consider 
threading as an example.  We could drop the non threaded VNC server 
entirely if we didn't have to care about breaking Windows.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Kevin
>