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Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 20:09:52 -0600
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To: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, "Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Arun Bharadwaj <arun@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On 02/07/2011 03:45 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:02:03PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
>> As far as I'm concerned, Windows support is already deprecated as noone
>> has stepped up to enhance it or support for a number of years now.  We
>> shouldn't remove existing code that supports it or refuse to take
>> reasonable patches but if enabling IO thread by default breaks it, so be
>> it.
>>      
> As far as I see, Blue Swirl and Stefan Weil are regularly committing
> fixes for win32. Stefan Weil is also providing win32 binaries on his
> website [1]. I wouldn't call that deprecated.
>    

Occasional compile fixes is a long way from something that is regularly 
tested and well maintained.

Win32 still doesn't have a proper AIO implementation which is probably 
close to a 4 year old FIXME.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> [1] http://qemu.weilnetz.de/
>
>