On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 01:17:20PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 1/14/26 12:28, Reinoud Zandijk wrote: > > Sorry to break this but even submitting simple patches and getting them into > > the qemu source tree hasn't been an easy nor enjoyable experience to me to > > understate it > > Have you actually tried since 2021 when your last commit was? > https://patchew.org/search?q=project%3AQEMU+from%3Areinoud says you didn't > but I may be missing something. > > In fact your only contribution was a really big one, and I say this not to > understate you work but because *almost anything* would be easier than > submitting a new accelerator.
I can't claim all the credits :) Most of the low level work was done by maxv, the author of NVMM. IIRC I updated the local patch and modified it to work with the newer build framework and committed it into the tree. I have to admit I haven't contributed more since but I still use Qemu daily, with the NVMM accelerator :) It makes such a big difference. > > so once in a while, a new version is pulled into pkgsrc and > > patches are made on top and if they start to grow or diverge too much a > > patch > > round can be made requested on the qemu repo. This is just my experience of > > course. > > We're not asking you to keep CI up-to-date (which Thomas is doing now, > despite having no specific need that I know of to support NetBSD), just to > *report* failure to build from source and tell us "hey, that's how we fixed > it". Otherwise we have the false impression that no one even cares about > new QEMU on NetBSD. As pkgsrc normally tracks releases and has a directory with local patches on top of that, build errors only show up when we bump the version. Version 10.2 is now in pkgsrc though I am running 10.1.3 so there is surely interest in keeping it running. I could try to commit some more trivial patches in the repo here to reduce the diffs some more. Thanks for the feedback, Reinoud
