On Thu, Jul 9, 2026 at 2:51 AM Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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"?

Yes, please do.

> > 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).

Agreed - I expect we'll be able to upstream the changes required.

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