On 28.11.2010, at 01:17, Nathan Froyd wrote: > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 01:26:31AM +0100, François Revol wrote: >>>> the people we are addressing and we would like to bring together is from >>>> the QEMU emulation community. >>>> We are interested in running different ISAs mainly under Linux and Windows >>>> versions. There is a huge additional >>> >>> You're about the first person in 1/2 year that actually said you >>> care about Windows hosts. Windows support for example is currently >>> on the verge of getting deprecated, because we're lacking a >>> maintainer. >> >> I suppose windows users are not as much used/interested/involved into >> free software development workflows, and probably don't bother even >> lurking on the developer mailing lists. They only shout when something >> breaks :p > > We (CodeSourcery) are very interested in Windows host support. (We > distribute QEMU with our commerical development products for > ARM/PowerPC/MIPS/SH/ColdFire/x86.) Unfortunately, we've mostly been > backporting patches lately and haven't done a full merge from upstream > in some time, so we haven't noticed any potential breakage. If somebody > wanted to point out to me what the (potential) Windows issues are, we > could take a look.
Redirecting you to Anthony here for the specifics. The main problem is that we don't have anyone who takes the lead on Windows support. _If_ something breaks of _if_ we need someone to take over the windows specific parts, there's this huge gap. So if you're willing to play that role, please send a patch to the MAINTAINERS file and add yourself :) Btw Anthony, what happened to the really well done MAINTAINERS file overhaul? Alex
