Re: [Qemu-devel] [ANNOUNCE] QEMU 1.0-rc4 (was: QEMU 1.0-rc3)

[Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>]

Am 28.11.2011 23:59, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Am 28.11.2011 23:32, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On behalf of the QEMU Team, I'd like to announce the availability of
>> QEMU 1.0, release candidate 4. This is the forth and hopefully last
>> release candidate for the 1.0 release. This is not intended for
>> production use but rather for testing.
>>
>> To participate in the testing effort, please read the Testing Wiki[1]
>> and sign up to test a subsystem. Any problems should be reported on
>> Launchpad[2] or qemu-devel.
>>
>> If you've contributed to the 1.0 release, please take a moment and
>> update the Changelog[3] so we can have a high quality change log for the
>> release.
>>
>> The full release schedule[4] is also available on the wiki.
>>
>> http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-1.0-rc4.tar.gz
>>
>> Known Issues:
>>
>> - None!
> Apart from the subject being wrong again ;), we all know this is a lie:
>
> ARM host and Darwin host are known broken.
>
> Please note that for the final Release Notes.
>
> Andreas

The default MIPS system emulation (Malta) won't work in this release.
A bug in interrupt handling will either crash QEMU or result in
some devices which are unusable (ethernet, ...).

I just sent another patch which fixes this issue.

Please consider applying one of my patches (or any other solution:
it's also possible to revert Avi's patch) to the final QEMU 1.0.
I know that you tried to make 1.0-rc4 == 1.0, but I think that
a bug fix which is limited to mips_malta.c won't harm and is
better than releasing 1.0 with an unusable MIPS system emulation.

Cheers,
Stefan