Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Hollis Blanchard wrote: It is a centrally co-ordinated effort, but it is not a package a distro would carry. It is code shared by anything that needs to load a PowerPC Linux kernel, for example: the kernel bootwrapper (part of the Linux source tree), u-boot firmware, Xend, and now qemu.

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: It is a centrally co-ordinated effort, but it is not a package a distro would carry. It is code shared by anything that needs to load a PowerPC Linux kernel, for example: the kernel bootwrapper (part of the Linux

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:24 -0600, Jerone Young wrote: However, why do we need libfdt? Is it not carried by distros, or do you need to make changes? Well it actually isn't distributed with each distro .. sigh .. actually this comes from a tool called dtc, compiles/decompiles a device

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:59 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: Alexander Graf wrote: A static library + headers (i.e. libfdt-devel.rpm) could have been used, though Linux avoids external dependencies. Why don't you try to talk to the other possible users and create a version of the library, that at

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Hollis Blanchard
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:48 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: It is a centrally co-ordinated effort, but it is not a package a distro would carry. It is code shared by anything that needs to load a PowerPC Linux

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Alexander Graf
On Feb 27, 2008, at 7:56 PM, Hollis Blanchard wrote: On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 17:48 +0100, Alexander Graf wrote: On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:34 PM, Avi Kivity wrote: Hollis Blanchard wrote: It is a centrally co-ordinated effort, but it is not a package a distro would carry. It is code shared by

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-27 Thread Avi Kivity
Hollis Blanchard wrote: I think it's obvious that Linux and uboot will never use this. Unless someone steps up to continue PowerPC Xen development, neither will Xen. So you've now narrowed down the use case to dtc (which is libfdt upstream) and qemu. Is Xen ppc discontinued? Whose

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-26 Thread Jerone Young
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 11:00 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: Jerone Young wrote: The top level directory of kvm-userspace is starting to get a little crowded as we start to bring in more external dependencies. Perhaps we can create a folder tools and move directories: bios extboot vgabios

Re: [kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-25 Thread Avi Kivity
Jerone Young wrote: The top level directory of kvm-userspace is starting to get a little crowded as we start to bring in more external dependencies. Perhaps we can create a folder tools and move directories: bios extboot vgabios The reason I mention this is soon I will be sending a patch

[kvm-devel] Top level kvm-userspace directory getting crowded ... need new dir for qemu dependencies

2008-02-24 Thread Jerone Young
The top level directory of kvm-userspace is starting to get a little crowded as we start to bring in more external dependencies. Perhaps we can create a folder tools and move directories: bios extboot vgabios The reason I mention this is soon I will be sending a patch to the list soon that will