Linaro QEMU package in Ubuntu?

Hello,

one of the Ubuntu blueprints for 11.04 is to provide a QEMU better suited to Linaro/ARM work in the official archives, allowing to test at least the official Ubuntu ARM images.

The Linaro PPA provides a package based on qemu-maemo from gitorious, and it is ahead of what is packaged in that it supports the BeagleBoard.

I see there's also qemu-arm repo in git.linaro.org - I assume this is a newer and preferable upstream to the maemo one?

Are the ARM patches being pushed and accepted into upstream QEMU regularly? In this case there may be no need to create a new package and just wait for that work to get released and packaged, and maybe focus the effort on helping with upstreaming the ARM changes.

any pointers appreciated :)

thanks Jani