experimental FreeBSD qemu-devel git head port update for testing

[Juergen Lock]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 07:56:21PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 12:23:39AM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> >  Jan Kiszka asked me if the unstable guest timer irq problem still
> > exists on qemu git head, so I made an update for that today:
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20090829.patch
> > (and found out it does.)
> > 
> >  The bad news (for FreeBSD users anyway) is kqemu support has now been
> > removed as `promised' (by the upstream qemu developers), so testing this
> > version is probably less interesting for many FreeBSD users than the
> > qemu 0.11 stable branch snapshot I posted about here,
> > 	http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2009-August/006646.html
> > but e.g. users of non-x86 targets probably will still be interested.
> > 
> >  Also the pcap patch stopped working in this snapshot and I don't yet
> > know why.  (I think the original version of that patch was submitted by
> > Jung-uk Kim, maybe he has an idea; Cc'd.)
> > [...]
> 
> Jung-uk Kim sent me a new pcap patch (thanx! :), and I have just included
> it in the mentioned update at
> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~nox/qemu/qemu-devel-20090829.patch

New update at the same place, Jung-uk Kim sent me another version of the
pcap patch and while I was at it I added the tap close patch and removed
the dynticks patch since it seems to perform even worse than -clock unix
on FreeBSD. :(

 Happy testing...
	Juergen