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On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 23:32 -0400, Randy MacLeod wrote:
> On 2016-08-27 05:51 AM, Wang Xin wrote:
> > 
> > Upgrade qemu from 2.6.0 to 2.6.1.
> Not merged yet even in master-next.
> Hmmm, 2.7.0 is also available as of Sept 2nd.
> 
> It's too late for oe-core-2.2 - right?
> 
> 
> The Changelog is interesting:
> 
> http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.7
> 
> and here are a couple of shorter summaries from (ugh) Phoronix :
> 
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-2.7-Released
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=QEMU-2.7-RC0
> 
> Shiny! :)

Most interestingly, it says:

PowerPC
* Many TCG fixes. 

and given the qemuppc openssh problems we're having that looks very
very tempting. We'll test a 2.7.0 upgrade (Robert already confirmed it
seems to help in local testing) and I may take this into M3 if it
solves issues we're seeing.

Cheers,

Richard