Re: [Qemu-devel] Should we have a 2.0-rc3 ?

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:17:55PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> So far I know of at least three fixes which should probably
> go into 2.0:
>  * my fix for the configure stack-protector checks on MacOSX
>  * MST's pull request updating the ACPI test blobs
>  * MST says we need to update the hex files for ACPI too
>    (otherwise you get a different ACPI blob depending on whether
>     your build system had iasl or not, if I understand correctly)
> 
> Are there any others?

If we do rc3 anyway, maybe
[PATCH 1/2] pci-assign: Fix a bug when map MSI-X table memory failed
which is an error-handling bugfix.

I'd like Alex to weight in about this one though.


> So we have two choices:
> 
> (A) get those fixes into git today, and tag an rc3; that
> would then need some testing time and presumably we'd hope
> to tag it as the 2.0 release on Monday or Tuesday next week
> 
> (B) say that the above are not worth fixing in 2.0 proper
> and plan to do a 2.0.1 in a few weeks with the above plus
> any other breakage that people find.
> 
> Opinions?
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM