On 1/11/11 9:05 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Adding a device is simply a matter of dropping a file into the tree and a line into the Makefile and you are done. The device is available to be used via -device. So the cost of maintaining stuff out-of-tree isn't that big as you almost never have patch conflict issues.
The concern here is when something goes wrong. A user who does not know qemu's source picks up the source for a driver they would like to use how-ever the qemu they build does not work as they expect. With a binary blob they question their set up or options, with something they build there is more doubt about the nature of the failure.
Chris
