Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-03-04 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 03/03/07, Thiemo Seufer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/02/07, Christopher Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ok FreeBSD Support round one.. > > > >Be gentle this is my first attempt at working with the rest of this > >community.. > > > >Files it modi

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-03-03 Thread Thiemo Seufer
andrzej zaborowski wrote: > Hi, > > On 20/02/07, Christopher Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Ok FreeBSD Support round one.. > > > >Be gentle this is my first attempt at working with the rest of this > >community.. > > > >Files it modifies and the reasons are as follows > > > >configure - Adds

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-25 Thread andrzej zaborowski
Hi, On 20/02/07, Christopher Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok FreeBSD Support round one.. Be gentle this is my first attempt at working with the rest of this community.. Files it modifies and the reasons are as follows configure - Adds HOST_FREEBSD type to alter included libraries FreeBSD

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-24 Thread Leonardo Reiter
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON also works on Solaris. In fact, Linux is the only platform where it doesn't work due to a bug in the Linux kernel as Fabrice mentions: http://www.qemu.org/kqemu-tech.html#SEC7 Technically on Solaris, /tmp is probably the same thing as MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANON since the filesyst

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-24 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >-=-=-=-=-=- > >Ok FreeBSD Support round one.. > >Be gentle this is my first attempt at working with the rest of this >community.. > >Files it modifies and the reasons are as follows > >configure - Adds HOST_FREEBSD type to alter included libraries FreeBSD

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ben Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Start with the configure script and Makefiles, and any very specfic, targeted : and small patches and let those changes slowly propogate out. Most of the FreeBSD ports patches are relatively easy to justify and e

[Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Christopher Olsen
Ok FreeBSD Support round one.. Be gentle this is my first attempt at working with the rest of this community.. Files it modifies and the reasons are as follows configure - Adds HOST_FREEBSD type to alter included libraries FreeBSD does not need -ltr Makefile.target - Once again uses HOST_FREE

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Brook
> So should I make a separate patch for each modified file? No. You should break changes into logically independent patches. It is ok for a single patch to touch multiple files, but it should only fix one thing. Paul ___ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Christopher Olsen
On Monday 19 February 2007 21:08, Ben Taylor wrote: > Having been in your shoes, the only thing I can tell you is start > small. Be able to justify your patches and change as little as > possible. Be smart about how you code things if there are > specific reasons. And get ready for a long haul.

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Christopher Olsen
On Monday 19 February 2007 20:46, Paul Brook wrote: > > This is a sidetrack here... But is it at all possible to make future > > releases of the source more FreeBSD friendly? > > If someone puts in the effort to make it so, yes. > > Note that dumping the current patches from FreeBSD ports on the li

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Ben Taylor
Christopher Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a sidetrack here... But is it at all possible to make future releases > of the source more FreeBSD friendly? > > I am willing to work off a specified codebase to bring it up to FreeBSD speed > so it can be easily maintained from there

Re: [Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Paul Brook
> This is a sidetrack here... But is it at all possible to make future > releases of the source more FreeBSD friendly? If someone puts in the effort to make it so, yes. Note that dumping the current patches from FreeBSD ports on the list is generally not sufficient. Blindly posting patches witho

[Qemu-devel] FreeBSD Support

2007-02-19 Thread Christopher Olsen
This is a sidetrack here... But is it at all possible to make future releases of the source more FreeBSD friendly? I am willing to work off a specified codebase to bring it up to FreeBSD speed so it can be easily maintained from there... Because unfortunately out of the box it doesn't build.