Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] virtio-gpu/2d: add hardware spec include file

[Peter Maydell]

On 14 September 2014 08:09, Michael S. Tsirkin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 07:32:21AM -0700, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Who owns the "master" copy of the header and commits
>> to making sure it builds on other things than Linux+gcc
>> in that case?

> For most of virtio neither linux nor QEMU are the master.
> syncing them has been done manually in the past.
> As we are copying other headers from Linux anyway,
> I think it would be better for everyone if we make
> the Linux headers the master for QEMU going forward.

That's problematic because our copies of the linux headers
are only (and can only) be included in our include path
on Linux hosts. I had this problem with the PSCI headers
for ARM (I can't say I really like the solution I came up
with there, so if we can do better that would be cool).

-- PMM