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Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 21:14:51 +0200
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Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> I have to go through the motions of creating a sourceforge project 
>> for this and uploading it.  And yes, it is free.
>
> Don't even bother creating a project.  Just submit the patches back to 
> QEMU.  There's been a lot of discussion about this functionality 
> within QEMU.  There's no reason to fork QEMU yet again (Xen has given 
> up and is now maintaining a patch queue).  In this case, there's no 
> reason why you would even need a patch queue.

We don't plan to fork qemu, too much good stuff is being added there.  
However I want to submit the patch for inclusion only after (if?) the 
driver is merged into the mainline kernel.  The patch is also not very 
pretty at the moment.

I'll post it as a patch and probably a binary rpm for the lazy.


-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.

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