Am 12.02.2025 um 10:41 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2025 at 09:14:57AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 10:43:27PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > This adds a separate block driver for the bochs image format called
> > > 'bochs-rs' so that for the moment both the C implementation and the Rust
> > > implementation can be present in the same build. The intention is to
> > > remove the C implementation eventually and rename this one into 'bochs'.
> > > This can only happen once Rust can be a hard build dependency for QEMU.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  rust/block/Cargo.toml    |   2 +-
> > >  rust/block/src/bochs.rs  | 296 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  rust/block/src/driver.rs |   5 -
> > >  rust/block/src/lib.rs    |   1 +
> > >  4 files changed, 298 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> > >  create mode 100644 rust/block/src/bochs.rs
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/rust/block/Cargo.toml b/rust/block/Cargo.toml
> > > index 70ee02f429..1c06f3a00c 100644
> > > --- a/rust/block/Cargo.toml
> > > +++ b/rust/block/Cargo.toml
> > > @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ name = "block"
> > >  version = "0.1.0"
> > >  edition = "2021"
> > >  authors = ["Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com>"]
> > > -license = "GPL-2.0-or-later"
> > > +license = "GPL-2.0-or-later AND MIT"
> > >  readme = "README.md"
> > >  description = "Block backends for QEMU"
> > >  repository = "https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/";
> > > diff --git a/rust/block/src/bochs.rs b/rust/block/src/bochs.rs
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000000..388ac5ef03
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/rust/block/src/bochs.rs
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,296 @@
> > > +// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
> > 
> > Why MIT instead of our normal GPL-2.0-or-later.
> > 
> > Using Rust conversion to eliminate GPL usage for permissive licenses
> > like MIT is not something I'd like to see us doing.
> 
> My bad. I should have noticed that the original bochs.c was also MIT,
> so I presume you're considering this Rust impl to be a derived work.

Yes, this is essentially a translation of the existing C bochs driver,
which is also why I kept the original copyright notice and the full
license text.

Kevin


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