Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946396AbWJST3C (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:29:02 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423230AbWJST3B (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:29:01 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:2269 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423225AbWJST3A (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:29:00 -0400 Message-ID: <4537D1FA.9090502@us.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:28:58 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060918) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avi Kivity CC: Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] KVM: Kernel-based Virtual Machine References: <4537818D.4060204@qumranet.com> <4537A343.1050008@qumranet.com> <4537CBB2.2080701@us.ibm.com> <4537CEAB.4030809@qumranet.com> In-Reply-To: <4537CEAB.4030809@qumranet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1368 Lines: 35 Avi Kivity wrote: > 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 would recommend the opposite approach. Something can go in QEMU more quickly than in the kernel and you'll get people actually testing it. If it gets in the kernel and there's no major userspace presence you won't have nearly the same amount of testers... Regards, Anthony Liguori > I'll post it as a patch and probably a binary rpm for the lazy. > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/