Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5?] ide-test: Fix endianness problems

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Il 15/05/2013 15:24, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>> Am 15.05.2013 um 15:15 hat Paolo Bonzini geschrieben:
>>> Il 15/05/2013 15:00, Kevin Wolf ha scritto:
>>>> The test case passes on big endian hosts now (tested on ppc64)
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
>>>
>>> For 1.5?  Do we need an extra -rc?
>> 
>> An extra -rc for a test case fix on big endian hosts is probably too
>> much... But if it can still be applied for the release, sure, why not.
>
> Well, we have Mac OS X not building,

Peter's patch fixes it and will be in -rc2

> BSDs not supporting the GTK+

We don't have a formal support statement, but I don't think it's
controversial to say that BSD hosts are a secondary platform from a host
point of view.

A build issue in an optional feature on a secondary platform is not
something I'd consider a release blocker.

> release, and SLIRP broken on Windows.

This is a tough one since it's the default networking backend.  That
said, it likely has been broken for a while (months) and no one
noticed.  That makes me think that fixing in stable (particularly if we
scheduled a stable release for two weeks after 1.5.0) is reasonable.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>  At least the first two have
> patches on the list, the last is bisected but no patch yet.
>
> Paolo