On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 07:56:02PM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 5 September 2010 19:51, Avi Kivity <a...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 09/05/2010 08:44 PM, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > >> > >>>> I'm perfectly fine with dropping it. btw, there are other features in > >>>> qemu > >>>> that seem to be academic exercises - *-user for example. What is it > >>>> useful > >>>> for? Most open source stuff is multiplatform, and serious commercial > >>>> work > >>>> needs something faster than tcg. > >>> > >>> Riiight.. Here's a story, my work duties required me to fiddled with > >> > >> More examples of industrial use are Nokia and Palm using OpenEmbedded > >> building firmware for their phones, which afaik I relies for some > >> parts on qemu (just some parts, so the tcg performance doesn't impact > >> overall performance that much). There are many more users of OE, but > >> these two have products in shops near me. > > > > Well, both these examples are very far from the typical end user or even > > typical developer. > > Some of the industrial users include all of their "app developers" > which count in big numbers. Now I haven't installed Nokia or Palm's > SDKs but Poky's SDK (OE-based) does include qemu. So I wouldn't be > surprised if the number of deployments is bigger than system mode > qemu.
I agree, removing linux-user emulation doesn't make any sense to me. Cheers
