On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:56 AM, cheetah <xuw...@gmail.com> wrote: > I need to do some changes to qemu-kvm. However, on the kvm website, it is > suggested to develop against qemu.git. I am wondering if I develop against > qemu.git, because my fix may depend on some new patch that is only in > qemu.git, it seems very hard to generate a patch for the qemu-kvm. But my > goal is to generate a patch to qemu-kvm while contribute the patch to qemu. > Could you give me some advice? Should I develop again qemu.git or > qemu-kvm.git? How to manage the patch generating process less painful?
It depends what code you are changing. If you are changing anything non-KVM or PCI-passthrough specific, then the number of conflicts when applying your patches against qemu-kvm.git will be low (or zero). Which areas of the code are you going to touch? Stefan
