Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU build broken

[Sean Bruno]

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 12:26 -0500, Stacey Son wrote: 
> On May 9, 2014, at 4:55 AM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On 9 May 2014 09:57, Riku Voipio <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> On 8 May 2014 17:54, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> >>> Ah, bsd-user. Do you actually use it, or is it just
> >>> in the default compile that you're running?
> > 
> >> One year since last bsd-user specific patch, I take we need a new
> >> maintainer for bsd-user?
> > 
> > Perhaps so. Stacey Son submitted a set of patches to
> > it back in January, but they were a very large series
> > which needed some restructuring to get through code
> > review and I don't think there's been a respin of those.
> > 
> > Personally I would like to see it either (a) actively
> > maintained upstream or (b) just removed from the tree;
> > the current situation doesn't seem very useful.
> 
> There is some interest from FreeBSD folks to use qemu bsd-user mode in 
> package cross building.  In fact, support was added recently to poudriere to 
> used qemu to cross build packages for armv6 and mips64 (see 
> https://fossil.etoilebsd.net/poudriere/tktview/eb7afa654cec95e107905c64b78fb030abc1437b
>  for example).  Sean Bruno added the missing bits to make mips32 work 
> correctly.  Juergen Lock (nox@) has also contributed a lot of bug fixes and 
> maintains the FreeBSD port.
> 
> As for restructuring the (25,000+ lines of) patches Sean has agreed to help 
> with that given that I am busy with some other things at the moment.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -stacey. 


Hey folks, Sean here.  I'm currently consolidating the code in our
qemu-devel port into a copy of the qemu github repo and doing the magics
to make sure I have a stable base to start from.

I'll search the lists for the already provided feedback and try to bunch
up the patch sets into logical chunks based on feature support.

sean

ref --> https://github.com/seanbruno/qemu-bsd-user/tree/bsd-user