From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:47663) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfAM4-0003iF-QN for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:49:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfALz-0007Cf-TI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:49:28 -0400 Received: from e23smtp08.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.141]:48645) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UfALz-0007CY-9d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:49:23 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp08.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:46:49 +1000 Received: from d23relay03.au.ibm.com (d23relay03.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.21]) by d23dlp02.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26C942BB0023 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:49:15 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay03.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4MEn4vZ21233890 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:49:07 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4MEnC6S009734 for ; Thu, 23 May 2013 00:49:12 +1000 From: Anthony Liguori In-Reply-To: <519CD77B.3080400@suse.de> References: <1369066884-431-1-git-send-email-peter.maydell@linaro.org> <519A50EE.8040804@redhat.com> <871u8zp34w.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <519CCD21.8090008@suse.de> <871u8zjdgy.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <519CD77B.3080400@suse.de> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 09:48:59 -0500 Message-ID: <87mwrncbok.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] New targets (was: [PATCH] qapi-schema.json: Reformat TargetType enum to one-per-line) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= Cc: Paolo Bonzini , John Rigby , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell Andreas F=C3=A4rber writes: > Am 22.05.2013 16:28, schrieb Anthony Liguori: >> Andreas F=C3=A4rber writes: >>> More common is however that people start writing a new target and don't >>> submit it yet (ahem!) while another target gets added, and the current >>> form of rebreaking this block of enum values causes more conflicts >>=20 >> Sounds like a good reason to submit the target upstream to me... > > So are incompletely implemented targets (wrt instruction set) eligible > for upstream these days? Aren't most of our target incomplete by some standard? I thought the typical approach for a target was to get linux-user working first, and then go for softmmu. As long as linux-user can run application, I think it's fair game for merging. > I thought they'd need to be able to run at > least some small image successfully, preferably Linux where possible. I think that's far too high of a hurdle. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Regards, > Andreas > > --=20 > SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 N=C3=BCrnberg, Germany > GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imend=C3=B6rffer; HRB 16746 AG N=C3= =BCrnberg