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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost
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Jan Kiszka |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost |
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Tue, 03 May 2011 19:09:01 +0200 |
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On 2011-05-03 18:55, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 05/03/2011 07:48 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> This helps reducing our build-time checks for feature support in the
>> available Linux kernel headers. And it helps users that do not have
>> sufficiently recent headers installed on their build machine.
>>
>> Header upstate is triggered via
>>
>> scripts/update-linux-headers.sh LINUX_PATH
>>
>> from the top-level QEMU source directory.
>>
>> Consequently, the patch removes and build-time checks for kvm and vhost
>> in configure, and also the --kerneldir switch. Kernel headers are
>> supposed to be provided by QEMU only.
>>
>> Kernel headers were automatically imported from current kvm.git,
>> 93c016c8c4. Some are not covered by any license and can be considered
>> GPLv2 with user space exception. Some are explicitly GPLv2 - at least
>> for QEMU that's fine in any case. Others are "BSD" which shall to be
>> considered a compatible variant according to Rusty.
>
> Reluctant ack.
What downsides do you see?
>
> (though for commit log cleanliness, the scripts and the headers should
> be in separate commits)
>
I'll split up in thread parts: script, headers, build system changes.
Jan
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- [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Jan Kiszka, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Christoph Hellwig, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC][PATCH] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Arnd Bergmann, 2011/05/03
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Jan Kiszka, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Avi Kivity, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost,
Jan Kiszka <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Avi Kivity, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Edgar E. Iglesias, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Jan Kiszka, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Scott Wood, 2011/05/03
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Arnd Bergmann, 2011/05/03
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] Import Linux headers for KVM and vhost, Peter Maydell, 2011/05/03