From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49508 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PyJtl-0002tu-3f for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:10:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyJth-0006RZ-OS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:10:04 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:20676) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PyJth-0006QZ-Dc for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 12 Mar 2011 03:10:01 -0500 Message-ID: <4D7B2A53.4070702@redhat.com> Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 09:09:55 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1299877249-13433-1-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> <1299877249-13433-2-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <1299877249-13433-2-git-send-email-aliguori@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 01/11] Add hard build dependency on glib List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Luiz Capitulino , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Michael D Roth , Markus Armbruster On 03/11/2011 10:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > GLib is an extremely common library that has a portable thread implementation > along with tons of other goodies. > > GLib and GObject have a fantastic amount of infrastructure we can leverage in > QEMU including an object oriented programming infrastructure. > > Short term, it has a very nice thread pool implementation that we could leverage > in something like virtio-9p. It also has a test harness implementation that > this series will use. > > Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori This doesn't need to go in until there is use for it, which is IIRC for the QAPI tests? Paolo