Re: qemu patches to upstream

[Juan RP <juan%xtrarom.org@localhost>]

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 08:36:36 -0600 (CST)
reed%reedmedia.net@localhost wrote:

> Can someone who understands the qemu patches please submit them to qemu?
> 
> I pointed the qemu developers to our pkgsrc patches, but they want to know 
> why.
> 
> I had noticed that qemu didn't build on Linux due to our pkgsrc changes so 
> I started looking at this.
> 
> (My fix was not applicable upstream since it was our own pkgsrc that broke 
> it. I never committed it yet since I don't why our pkgsrc patch-ag change 
> was done in the first place. For what it is worth, many Linux 
> distributions don't have "uname -p" so the pkgsrc qemu configure fails 
> with a unknown system.)
> 
> Or if you can document each of the 11 patches I will be glad to submit 
> them upstream.
> 
> It is important to get non-pkgsrc-specific patches upstream so we don't 
> have to continue to understand and maintain them.

I have submitted some of those patches almost 2 years ago and nobody
answered me; I gave up...

There are some patches that are required to make it build on NetBSD and
some others for OSX as well.

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Juan Romero Pardines    - The NetBSD Project
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