Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 2/7] Enable I/O thread and VNC threads by default

[Anthony Liguori]

On 02/07/2011 03:45 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 03:02:03PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>    
> > As far as I'm concerned, Windows support is already deprecated as noone
> > has stepped up to enhance it or support for a number of years now.  We
> > shouldn't remove existing code that supports it or refuse to take
> > reasonable patches but if enabling IO thread by default breaks it, so be
> > it.
> >      
> As far as I see, Blue Swirl and Stefan Weil are regularly committing
> fixes for win32. Stefan Weil is also providing win32 binaries on his
> website [1]. I wouldn't call that deprecated.
>    

Occasional compile fixes is a long way from something that is regularly 
tested and well maintained.

Win32 still doesn't have a proper AIO implementation which is probably 
close to a 4 year old FIXME.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> [1] http://qemu.weilnetz.de/
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