Re: [Qemu-devel] Unmaintained QEMU builds

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

On 09/05/2010 12:51 PM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>  On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>
>>>> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it.  btw, there are other features 
>>>> in qemu
>>>> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example.  What is 
>>>> it useful
>>>> for?  Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious 
>>>> commercial work
>>>> needs something faster than tcg.
>>> Riiight.. Here's a story, my work duties required me to fiddled with
>> More examples of industrial use are Nokia and Palm using OpenEmbedded
>> building firmware for their phones, which afaik I relies for some
>> parts on qemu (just some parts, so the tcg performance doesn't impact
>> overall performance that much).  There are many more users of OE, but
>> these two have products in shops near me.
>
> Well, both these examples are very far from the typical end user or 
> even typical developer.
>
> No doubt anything is useful for someone, given the are 6.7Gp of us on 
> this planet.
>
> Are those examples worth the effort?  I don't know, but I'm sceptical.

-linux-user really doesn't impact much common code so the effort is 
pretty low.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori