Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 00/15] uq/master: Introduce basic irqchip support

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

On 12/15/2011 12:33 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >>
> >> Any thoughts on the qemu-kvm merge plan? Sounds painful.
> > 
> > Pain will be where the existing qemu-kvm extensions collide with these
> > refactored upstream devices (backend/frontend split specifically).
> > That's where we have to merge very carefully. Haven't tried this yet,
> > will give it a spin tomorrow or so.
>
> Done yesterday, still seems to work fine. The result can be found at
>
> git://git.kiszka.org/qemu-kvm.git kvm-irqchip-merge
>
> The integration of the upstream irqchip patches was, as expected, not
> that hard. But the merge of my earlier refactorings, the
> backend/frontend split-up caused some efforts.
>
> I'm not sure what to do with that branch. We could either try to merge
> it before pulling in an upstream version that includes the new irqchips.
> But that won't work without manual conflict resolution as well. Or the
> branch can serve as a reference for re-doing a merge later on.

If we merge this before upstream, will the two sides end up equivalent? 
Sounds like it'll be pretty easy to resolve the conflicts if so.

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