On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 10:21 PM Brian Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/30/2026 11:01 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 28, 2026 at 9:46 PM Brian Cain <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm working on upstreaming support for hexagon system emulation and it'd > >> be useful to add the h2 vmm to QEMU's roms/ in order to simplify booting > >> OSs like Linux. > >> > >> To that end, I think the initial step in the process is to mirror the repo > >> in the qemu-project? https://github.com/qualcomm/hexagon-hypervisor/ is > >> where the code is hosted now. And once that is done I suppose I would add > >> QEMU patches to add the build process and build output into roms/. Can > >> one of you do that mirror step or suggest how I can do it? > > Hi Brian, > > I have created a mirror of the stable branch here: > > https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/hexagon-hypervisor > > > > Please take a look and let me know if you need any changes. > > > Excellent, thanks! > > > I have a feeling that the 'stable' branch of this repo was a 'good > intention' that does not have a process by which it gets updated. I've > asked the maintainers if they plan to keep this branch active or prune > it. And I'll ask if they can generate a tag/release that we could use > as a basis.
Hi Brian, Would you like me to change the mirroring configuration to follow "master" instead of "stable"? > What's the process by which we update our fork? It has an automated > mirror process driven by gitlab? What if we need changes that > can't/won't be upstreamed - can we make those locally? I don't yet have > any plans to make local changes, just want to understand how the process > works. GitLab automatically mirrors the upstream repo. It's possible to change the repo configuration to act as a fork where you can push downstream-only patches, but at the moment it acts purely as a mirror. There is only 1 repo I'm aware of where it was necessary to do this. Usually it's possible to get patches upstream. Please let me know in case you need downstream-only patches and we can set it up (this should be a last resort). Stefan
