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Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2009 14:44:45 -0300
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: start qemu failed with --enable-kvm -vga std
From: Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>
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To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc: glommer@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:39 PM, M. Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
> In message: <5d6222a80904081025j1644b6bay17d1ff942247971@mail.gmail.com>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com=
> writes:
> : In all seriousness, no matter how good your series for improving kvm
> : registration
> : are, it is unlikely to hit the stable branch. So I believe a good deal
> : would have something
> : on the line of this patch applied to stable, leaving unstable as is,
> : until we can find a better
> : solution.
>
> Huh? =C2=A0It is unlikely to be merged into stable, so let's commit it to
> stable?
Yes. It is a kohan, and whenever you understand it, you'll reach
enlightment. So I won't
explain that to you ;-)

I meant that Jan's forthcoming series that heavily touch kvm memory
registration (the beautiful way)
is unlikely to get into stable. So I'd advocate applying this patch
(the said ugly way) to stable.
Otherwise we'll get -vga std broken for good.


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