scripts: Explain the difference between linux-headers and standard-headers

If you don't know it, it's hard to figure out the difference between
the linux-headers folder and the include/standard-headers folder.
So let's add a short explanation to clarify the difference.

Suggested-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Peter Maydell 2021-12-09 19:45:32 +00:00
parent 5212297c47
commit 0166f5c466

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#
# This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL version 2.
# See the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
#
# The script will copy the headers into two target folders:
#
# - linux-headers/ for files that are required for compiling for a
# Linux host. Generally we have these so we can use kernel structs
# and defines that are more recent than the headers that might be
# installed on the host system. Usually this script can do simple
# file copies for these headers.
#
# - include/standard-headers/ for files that are used for guest
# device emulation and are required on all hosts. For instance, we
# get our definitions of the virtio structures from the Linux
# kernel headers, but we need those definitions regardless of which
# host OS we are building for. This script has to be careful to
# sanitize the headers to remove any use of Linux-specifics such as
# types like "__u64". This work is done in the cp_portable function.
tmpdir=$(mktemp -d)
linux="$1"