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Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android
From: |
Luiz Capitulino |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:22:02 -0200 |
On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:35:16 -0800
David Turner <address@hidden> wrote:
> Anthony is right, and unfortunately the Android team doesn't have the
> bandwidth to support sending patches to upstream
> at the moment.
You should also consider the benefits for yourself of merging your bits
upstream: more peer review, more testing, potential improvements and
maybe better integration.
> Note that our version of QEMU is a rather complex mix of 0.8.2 and upstream.
> I routinely cherry pick upstream improvements
> and incorporate them to the codebase. However, I'm also pretty conservative
> and try to avoid stuff we don't depend on and
> which risk breaking other stuff easily so many parts don't get in, or are
> implemented differently.
Do you ever consider rebasing someday?
> Also, many, many things in the Android emulator codebase have very little
> value for upstream qemu, imho.
>
> Bastien, what specific features are you interested in ? I can still have a
> look at what would be required to generate the
> corresponding upstream patch.
>
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>wrote:
>
> > On 01/21/2010 10:27 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What is the step in order to get qemu android merged mainline ?
> >>
> >> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/external/qemu.git;a=summary
> >>
> >>
> >
> > Send patches.
> >
> > It's very difficult to merge downstream code unless that entire downstream
> > is committed to working through upstream. I'd suggest encouraging the
> > Android developers to commit to pushing all of the functionality upstream
> > before going down this path.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Anthony Liguori
> >
> > Regards
> >>
> >> Bastien
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
- [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, Bastien ROUCARIES, 2010/01/22
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Merge qemu android, Bastien ROUCARIES, 2010/01/22
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, Anthony Liguori, 2010/01/23
- Message not available
- Fwd: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, Bastien ROUCARIES, 2010/01/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, Laurent Desnogues, 2010/01/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, David Turner, 2010/01/28
- [Qemu-devel] Re: Merge qemu android, Jan Kiszka, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, Anthony Liguori, 2010/01/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, Bastien ROUCARIES, 2010/01/30
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android, David Turner, 2010/01/28
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Merge qemu android,
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