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From: | dragoran |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] merging kqemu into mainline kernel? |
Date: | Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:44:59 +0200 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) |
Bill C. Riemers wrote:
I am not sure that working on older hardware will keep it out of the kernel. it adds support for unsupported hardware .... I don't see a problem here.dragoran wrote:Bill C. Riemers wrote:You don't need to compile kqemu into the kernel. When I install dkms-kqemu from freshrpms, I do NOT rebuild my kernel. I am fairly certain with Fedora's new policy for extras, there would not be much of a problem getting it added to Fedora. For that matter, it could probably get added into the new Enterprise Extra's repository as well. However, someone would need to volunteer to maintain the package.no thats not true fedora want to change the policy about out of tree modules the want to drop all kmod-* packages and only allow modules into the kernel rpm that are upstream or about to get merged upstream. anyway why has kqemu to be a out of tree module?It looks like you are right. Apparently the plan is to move the acceptance of kernel modules to kernel maintainers. For the most part, they only want to accept very cleanly written modules that are likely to be integrated into the kernel. Since "kqemu" is viewed as a solutiononly for obsolete hardware, that is not likely to happen.
we should atleast try to get it in ... the "it wont get merged anyway" attitude isn't very helpfull.It is a shame too, because "kqemu" provides a quality working solution for most of the hardware still in use today.
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