On 11/28/2010 04:56 AM, Alexander Graf wrote:
On 28.11.2010, at 01:17, Nathan Froyd wrote:
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:26:31AM +0100, François Revol wrote:
the people we are addressing and we would like to bring together is from the
QEMU emulation community.
We are interested in running different ISAs mainly under Linux and Windows
versions. There is a huge additional
You're about the first person in 1/2 year that actually said you
care about Windows hosts. Windows support for example is currently
on the verge of getting deprecated, because we're lacking a
maintainer.
I suppose windows users are not as much used/interested/involved into
free software development workflows, and probably don't bother even
lurking on the developer mailing lists. They only shout when something
breaks :p
We (CodeSourcery) are very interested in Windows host support. (We
distribute QEMU with our commerical development products for
ARM/PowerPC/MIPS/SH/ColdFire/x86.) Unfortunately, we've mostly been
backporting patches lately and haven't done a full merge from upstream
in some time, so we haven't noticed any potential breakage. If somebody
wanted to point out to me what the (potential) Windows issues are, we
could take a look.
Redirecting you to Anthony here for the specifics. The main problem is that we
don't have anyone who takes the lead on Windows support. _If_ something breaks
of _if_ we need someone to take over the windows specific parts, there's this
huge gap.
Uh, Windows system simulation has never worked reliably. It doesn't
even have proper AIO support.
If someone is building a product based on it, I'm amazed.
So if you're willing to play that role, please send a patch to the MAINTAINERS
file and add yourself :)
Btw Anthony, what happened to the really well done MAINTAINERS file overhaul?
I think I just forgot to commit it. Unfortunately, Savannah's now down :-(
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Alex
