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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] introduce BSD-licensed block driver for "ra
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Anthony Liguori |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] introduce BSD-licensed block driver for "raw" |
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Fri, 16 Aug 2013 09:59:07 -0500 |
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Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden> writes:
> Paolo asked me to write such a driver based on his textual specification
> alone. The first patch captures his email in full, the rest re-quotes
> parts that are being implemented.
>
> The tree compiles at each patch. The series passes "make check-block".
>
> "block/raw.c" is not removed because I wanted to keep it out of my
> series and out of my brain.
>
> Disclaimer: I couldn't care less if the raw block driver was public
> domain or AGPLv3+, as long as it qualifies as free software. I'm only
> trying to do what Paolo asked of me.
Generally speaking, rewriting parts of QEMU to be !GPL is something I
would strongly, strongly oppose.
I believe that Paolo had a good reason for this though. I suppose the
logic is that we want to expose a "libqemublock" that libvirt can use such
that it can stop parsing qcow2 files.
Now libvirt just needs LGPLv2+, right?
Is the JSON mode of qemu-img info not sufficient for libvirt's purposes?
Is there additional logic behind having a libqemublock?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
>
> Laszlo Ersek (7):
> add skeleton for BSD licensed "raw" BlockDriver
> raw_bsd: emit debug events in bdrv_co_readv() and bdrv_co_writev()
> raw_bsd: add raw_create()
> raw_bsd: introduce "special members"
> raw_bsd: add raw_create_options
> raw_bsd: register bdrv_raw
> switch raw block driver from "raw.o" to "raw_bsd.o"
>
> block/Makefile.objs | 2 +-
> block/raw_bsd.c | 186
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 187 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 block/raw_bsd.c
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] add skeleton for BSD licensed "raw" BlockDriver, (continued)
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/7] add skeleton for BSD licensed "raw" BlockDriver, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] raw_bsd: emit debug events in bdrv_co_readv() and bdrv_co_writev(), Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/7] raw_bsd: add raw_create(), Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/7] raw_bsd: introduce "special members", Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/7] raw_bsd: add raw_create_options, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] switch raw block driver from "raw.o" to "raw_bsd.o", Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/7] raw_bsd: register bdrv_raw, Laszlo Ersek, 2013/08/16
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] introduce BSD-licensed block driver for "raw",
Anthony Liguori <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] introduce BSD-licensed block driver for "raw", Kevin Wolf, 2013/08/20