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From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: Update seabios and upstream qemu versions used on
 xen-unstable
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:24:15 +0100
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To: Sander Eikelenboom <linux@eikelenboom.it>, Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
Cc: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@m2r.biz>, Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
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On 04/15/2014 12:51 PM, Sander Eikelenboom wrote:
>
> Tuesday, April 15, 2014, 1:18:32 PM, you wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 01:11:36PM +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
>>> I think it would be good to update seabios and upstream qemu versions used
>>> with xen-unstable.
>>> Recently I tested on my testing system with xen-unstable seabios updated to
>>> debian package version 1.7.4-4 without finding regressions and upstream qemu
>>> 2.0-rc0 from git where I found 2 regressions already reported and solved on
>>> upstream git.
>>> I updated qemu to 2.0-rc2 where I did some tests without finding other
>>> regressions or bugs for now.
>>> I also noticed on the wiki page of the next hackathon the topic "QEMU and
>>> SeaBIOS regression testing". As I reported some time ago it would be of
>>> great help.
>
>> I was thinking of submitting the update for QEMU when QEMU 2.0 will be
>> out.
>
> Wouldn't it be sensible for xen-unstable to follow at least the qemu rc's so those
> get build and tested in the osstests ?

It might make more sense to have a osstest target that used vanilla 
upstream -- in fact, there may be one already.

  -George