Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: start qemu failed with --enable-kvm -vga std

[Glauber Costa <glommer@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 April 2009, M. Warner Losh wrote:
>> In message: <5d6222a80904081025j1644b6bay17d1ff942247971@mail.gmail.com>
>>
>>             Glauber 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?  It is unlikely to be merged into stable, so let's commit it to
>> stable?
>
> I think the suggestion is that we apply an ugly hack on just the stable
> branch, and fix it properly later on the development.
>
> FWIW I think this is a bad idea. We should never fix something on the stable
> branch that isn't also fixed on the development branch. If the changes are
> causing problems, then my suggestion is to revert the original change (i.e.
> the support for >64k roms).

Just checked, and the > 64 roms patch is not on stable branch.

So this is a non issue.


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