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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] main: force enabling of I/O thread
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Alexandre Raymond <cerbere@gmail.com>, qemu-devel Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <andreas.faerber@web.de>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Alexander Graf <alex@csgraf.de>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>

On 09/02/2011 09:42 AM, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/02/2011 04:31 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> For a platform to be supported, it needs to be actively maintained and
>> fixed. If there aren't enough folks testing/fixing Darwin/ppc64, then
>> it's not a platform we can reasonable support :-/
>
> I agree unfortunately. I think personally that Darwin is important (at
> least Darwin/VNC, I care zero about Cocoa and SDL) because it keeps us
> honest and avoids introducing unwanted Linux-isms. But if even Windows
> turns out to work better than Darwin, that is not a good sign.
>
> Still, Andreas, please do try to get a report of how iothread works on
> Darwin with VNC graphics.

I've pushed this patch.  Please do report how things behave and we can 
try to fix whatever we can.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Paolo
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