From: Jan Kiszka Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 13:07:14 +0000 Subject: Re: [patch] fix qemu-kvm to build when gdbstub is disabled Message-Id: <4A02DD02.8020705@siemens.com> List-Id: References: <4A01AFE8.3020008@sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <4A01AFE8.3020008@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kvm-ia64@vger.kernel.org Jes Sorensen wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> As the original change this patch (correctly) fixes broke gdbstub >> support in qemu-kvm for all archs + it is still a deviation from >> upstream, please take the chance and go for ia64 stubs. > > Jan, > > There's far more to do in upstream than just gdbstubs for ia64 to be > usable :-( > > We'll get to gdbstubs at some point, but there's too many other higher > priority items to deal with first. I'm not asking for full gdbstub support at this point, just for a build workaround at arch-level (or in arch-specific blocks, in gdbstub.c e.g.) instead of patching generic code with global risk of regressions. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT SE 2 Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux