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[Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu

To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [Xen-devel] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] merge some xen bits into qemu
From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 14:39:03 +0100
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Gerd Hoffmann, le Wed 06 Aug 2008 15:24:39 +0200, a écrit :
> > You forgot the _test_ stage.  You are basically asking us to replace our
> > well-tested implementation with your implementation, that's quite a
> > move.
> 
> Sure, and more will follow.

But by having it merged into just upstream qemu you won't magically get
Xen people actually test it, so it would be mostly dead code.

> Pretty much like upstreaming the xen support into the linux kernel.

There's a big difference here.  The upstream linux kernel merge won't be
merged back to the linux-2.6.18 tree.  And people do test upstream xen
support.

Samuel

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