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From: Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org>
To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>,
	"qemu-devel@nongnu.org Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 10:11:55 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB07CBB.5020008@rtems.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4EAFC479.1090601@redhat.com>

On 1/11/11 9:05 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Adding a
> device is simply a matter of dropping a file into the tree and a line
> into the Makefile and you are done.  The device is available to be used
> via -device.  So the cost of maintaining stuff out-of-tree isn't that
> big as you almost never have patch conflict issues.
>

The concern here is when something goes wrong. A user who does not know 
qemu's source picks up the source for a driver they would like to use 
how-ever the qemu they build does not work as they expect. With a binary 
blob they question their set up or options, with something they build 
there is more doubt about the nature of the failure.

Chris

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-01 23:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-29 13:52 [Qemu-devel] GSoC mentor summit QEMU users session Alexander Graf
2011-10-31 13:12 ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-01  0:08   ` Alexander Graf
2011-11-01  1:35     ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-01  4:29       ` Alexander Graf
2011-11-01 10:05   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2011-11-01 23:11     ` Chris Johns [this message]
2011-11-02 17:44   ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-02 18:17     ` Jan Kiszka
2011-11-02 18:29       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-02 18:34         ` Alexander Graf
2011-11-02 18:46           ` Jan Kiszka
2011-11-02 18:47             ` Alexander Graf
2011-11-02 19:07               ` Peter Maydell
2011-11-02 19:27                 ` Alexander Graf
2011-11-02 19:35                   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-02 20:24                     ` Blue Swirl
2011-11-02 20:42                       ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-03  7:34                         ` Markus Armbruster
2011-11-03  7:46                     ` Markus Armbruster
2011-11-03  8:36                       ` Andreas Färber
2011-11-04 15:47                         ` Alexander Graf
2011-11-02 18:50             ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-02 18:52               ` Jan Kiszka
2011-11-02 18:51           ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-03  7:38             ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-03  7:44           ` Markus Armbruster
2011-11-01 14:28 ` Andreas Färber
2011-11-01 14:50   ` Anthony Liguori
2011-11-02 17:39 ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-03  7:44   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-03  9:35     ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-04  8:36       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-04  9:53         ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-04 12:04           ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2011-11-04 14:36             ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-04 18:45         ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-11-07 10:16           ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-07 11:50             ` Lluís Vilanova
2011-11-07 13:51               ` Fabien Chouteau
2011-11-07 14:17                 ` Lluís Vilanova

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