Hi,
On 09-08-17 22:14, Justin Forbes wrote:
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Hans de Goede <hdegoede(a)redhat.com
<mailto:hdegoede@redhat.com>> wrote:
Hi,
I've been working on cleaning up the vboxguest drivers so that they
can be added to the mainline kernel for:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/VirtualBox_Guest_Integration
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https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/VirtualBox_Guest_Integration>
The vboxvideo driver is already upstream, atm it is in staging
because it still needs to be ported to the new atomic-kms APIs
but otherwise it is in very good state and not really of staging
quality (I've already done a lot of cleanup reducing it from
52681 in its original form to 7275 lines in staging).
Some people have expressed concerns about my plans to _temporarily_
carry patches for the vboxguest integration in the Fedora kernel pkg.
I can understand that you are reluctant to carry patches which
need to be maintained for ever and ever, but that is not the case
here.
There is no question that you can clean up the drivers in a way that the code is sane.
My issue is that there have been numerous attempts to upstream vbox over the years. All
unsuccessful. It isn't a lack of faith in your abilities, but a question of how the
larger community upstream accepts these.
So I'm hereby asking the Fedora kernel-team for permission to add
these 2 drivers as patches to the Fedora kernel for a kernel-release
or 2 while I finish pushing them upstream.
I would at least like to see the initial reaction the upstream posting before agreeing to
this.
Ok fair enough.
There is plenty of time before Fedora 27 ships.
Beta-freeze is quite soon (slightly less then a month from now) and
it would be nice to have some testing outside of my little sandbox
before then. But yes we still have some time.
Regards,
Hans