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Re: [Qemu-devel] Publicating with QEMU
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Thiemo Seufer |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] Publicating with QEMU |
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Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:34:22 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) |
Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 16:08:51 Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> > Clemens Kolbitsch wrote:
> > > Hi guys!
> > > Short question: I'm having a speech at BlackHat Japan in Oktober about
> > > something I made with qemu. Basically it is a new hardware type (so it is
> > > just an additional file in the hw-subdirectory) --- it's the wireless
> > > device I have been asking questions for a couple of months ago in case
> > > someone remembers (there will be some code for you guys soon ;-) ).
> > >
> > > For the conference CD, they want me to give them my code. Is it ok if i
> > > just send them the whole qemu code I have here (I have only modified the
> > > Makefile to include my hw/myfile.c) --- i just want to make sure that the
> > > version is right and it compiles out of the box.
> >
> > As a general note, if you have modifications which are useful to a wider
> > audience, consider to submit them as patches to this mailing list.
> >
> > > Is that OK with the GPL stuff?? I include all the READMEs that come with
> > > QEMU svn, and I don't claim to be the author of QEMU or anything. Just
> > > want to do it correctly ;-)
> >
> > Yes, that's fine. (You can check for yourself, the GPL isn't as
> > incomprehensible as some other software licenses.)
> >
> > > Any advice, comments, etc.?
> >
> > Make sure to mark your version as a modified one, so people come to you
> > when they have questions, and don't ask us about bugs/features we never
> > heard of. :-)
> >
> >
> > Thiemo
>
>
> perfect -- thanks!
>
> once we get all the publication stuff behind us, you'll hear from us --
> promised :-)
>
> to turn our code into a standard network card shouldn't be too much of work
> and it's acually quite cool to have a wireless network inside qemu. doesn't
> help much besides increasing the coolness factor, though ;-)
I fairly sure some OpenWRT etc. guys will like to have it for tests.
It reduces the likelihood of accidentially bricking their devices. :-)
Thiemo