Re: [Qemu-devel] CFP: 1st International QEMU Users Forum

[Alexander Graf]

Frederic,

On 28.11.2010, at 09:20, Frédéric Pétrot wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
>   IMHO someone from code sourcery would be great, as they (Paul Brooks in the
>   older versions, it seems that Nathan is now taking over) are contributing
>   most of the ARM emulation stuff.
>   We may also have both talks organized one after the other covering both
>   topics, but then Wolfgang and I have to see how to fit into the time and
>   financial envelops (we can only pay the entrance fee for one people).
>   This is now a choice to be made by the qemu-devel people.
>   Please try to converge fast, so that we are in time for the DATE booklet.

_Please_ don't top post. It's considered very rude. Write your replies inline 
below the others'. That's what everybody else is doing too.

I agree that Nathan would be a very good fit.

> 
>   Bye,
>   Fred
> 
> PS: We have indeed ourselves worked on the acceleration of the neon support
>    (neon on mmx/sse instead of helpers), but seing that the QEmu community is
>    now really kvm oriented (not a criticism, I use virtual box very often and
>    we also use kvm in other contexts), we didn't really know how to proceed
>    to commit partial additions.

Please don't make the same mistake some other community members make. Without 
the virtualization folks, qemu would probably be as active as bochs these days 
(read: dead). Having this huge amount of people actually work on the code base 
helps qemu in general IMHO. The problem we're facing is that we have too few 
people actually working on the emulation side, not that too many are working on 
virtualization issues.

So overall, I don't know of too many "virtualization folks" who are hostile or 
opponent towards the emulation side of qemu. Quite the contrary. It's been very 
helpful at times.

The lack of contributions and maintainers for the emulation side is really the 
fundamental issue. And organizing a conference to tackle that one is a very 
good idea :).


Alex