From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsIaA-00021Y-Bq for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:51:38 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KsIa7-000215-W5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:51:37 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54284 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KsIa7-000212-Py for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:51:35 -0400 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.144]:11822) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KsIa7-0007o4-Dz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:51:35 -0400 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so697997qwc.4 for ; Tue, 21 Oct 2008 07:51:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <48FDEC73.4000908@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:51:31 -0500 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] release date of qemu 0.9.2? References: <48FDD9DD.4010906@codemonkey.ws> <20081021143834.GA29344@networkno.de> In-Reply-To: <20081021143834.GA29344@networkno.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thiemo Seufer Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> C.W. Betts wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> When will qemu be given the status of 0.9.2? I was browsing the >>> source code of the Qemu that ships with OpenSuSE and noticed that >>> there are a lot of patches. It would probably be helpful if there was >>> a release that didn't depend on GCC 4. >>> >>> Also, what targets still depend on dyngen? And is anyone working on >>> porting them to TCG? >>> >> A lot of previously supported hosts are no longer supported with TCG. I >> would think adding those hosts would be more important than completing >> the TCG conversion before cutting a new release. >> > > I disagree. The most important hosts are supported, the other hosts > were largely experimental anyway, and getting rid of dyngen / gcc3 > is IMHO worth a release. > Personally, I'd like to see much more frequent releases (every 3-6 months). I'm okay with not having complete features (like the dyngen->TCG conversion) or host regressions because I think there's value in having releases regularly compared to feature based releases. What do other people think? I'd be willing to do the leg work of releases. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Thiemo >