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Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c)
From: |
Thayne Harbaugh |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c) |
Date: |
Sat, 03 Nov 2007 19:16:00 -0600 |
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 20:13 +0100, Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Thayne Harbaugh wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 13:52 +0100, J. Mayer wrote:
> >> On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 01:21 +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> But it could be great to group the syscalls by
> >> categories, or so. For example, putting all POSIX compliant syscalls in
> >> a single file and using a syscall table could make quite easy to develop
> >> a BSD-user target (I did this in the past, not in Qemu though...). POSIX
> >> compliant interfaces can mostly be shared with Linux ones and a lot of
> >> other syscalls are common to the 3 BSD flavors (Net, Open and Free..).
> >> Being able to add a BSD target sharing the same code would be a proof
> >> the code is flexible and well organized; I guess large parts of the
> >> Darwin user target could also be merged with a FreeBSD user target...
> >
> > That's a reasonable strategy as well. I've looked through some of the
> > darwin code and have considered how common code could be merged.
>
> I am strongly against such merges.
>
> Different OS emulation must be handled in different directories (and
> maybe even in different projects) as they are likely to have subtle
> differences which makes impossible to test a modification made for one
> OS without testing all the other OSes.
Agreed.
- [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), Thayne Harbaugh, 2007/11/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), Thiemo Seufer, 2007/11/02
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), J. Mayer, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), Thayne Harbaugh, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), Fabrice Bellard, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c),
Thayne Harbaugh <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), J. Mayer, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), Paul Brook, 2007/11/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), J. Mayer, 2007/11/04
Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC] linux-user (mostly syscall.c), TJ, 2007/11/03