Re: qemu bsd-user plans

[Thomas Huth]

On 08/01/2021 20.56, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Adding the people to the CC list who were on the previous discussion thread...
>
> -- PMM
>
>
> On Fri, 8 Jan 2021 at 19:43, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:
[...]
> > So, my new plan is to rebase what changes I can to the tip of master and submit 
> > those for review. I'll work with the developers on the FreeBSD side to ensure 
> > they are included in reviews in addition to the normal qemu-devel list. This 
> > will allow us to pare down the deltas between our code and upstream to allow us 
> > to make progress. The changes will be held to the standard 'makes things 
> > better'. Given how broken bsd-user is today in qemu upstream, at first that 
> > will a very easy standard to make.
> >
> > The first patch I'll submit will be changing MAINTAINERS to point to me, since 
> > I'm acting as the point person in this effort. I'll then re-submit some other 
> > changes that I've submitted in the past, but CC the FreeBSD folks that are 
> > currently active (they were only CC'd to former developers who lack the time to 
> > review).
> >
> > But before I get too far down this path, I thought I'd send out what's going on 
> > to qemu-devel so I can get feedback and adjust the plan into something that's 
> > mutually agreeable so time I put towards this is not wasted.
> >
> > So, what do people think of these plans?

Sounds like a good way forward. Are you familiar with sending git pull 
requests? I think once the patch to MAINTAINERS has been accepted, it's 
maybe best if you send out pull request on your own once the patches got 
reviewed on the mailing list - otherwise it might get cumbersome to find a 
maintainers tree where the patches can go through.

 Thomas