From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9pu-00025q-UO for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:01:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9ps-00024S-9I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:01:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60244 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ld9ps-00024M-2k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:01:32 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f22.google.com ([209.85.221.22]:58550) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ld9pr-0007wc-Gb for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:01:31 -0500 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so247629qyk.4 for ; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:01:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <49A8549D.9010703@codemonkey.ws> Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:01:17 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] How are we looking for a release? References: <49A824ED.9070806@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; 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: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: The OpenBIOS Mailinglist Blue Swirl wrote: > On 2/27/09, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I wanted to see how we look from a release perspective. For x86, I think >> things are looking pretty good. There are a couple outstanding patches that >> need more review (like the CVE fix) but I think we'll be ready in a few >> days. >> >> How are the other architectures looking? Are there any major bug fixes >> people are working on? PPC is now fully converted to OpenBIOS, right? >> > > Yes, except for PREP. > Is anyone working on converting PREP? Any ETA? > There are recent patches to make PPC64 work that should be committed > in the coming days. That would be a nice addition but not critical. > > We have also discussed about making also an OpenBIOS (1.0) release, > the previous release candidate (1.0RC1) is more than year old. It > would be great to release Qemu with 1.0 OpenBIOS. > It would be great to have a 1.0 release for our release, but do you have an ETA on when that would be? It would be very good to get out a QEMU release within the next few days to match up with the upcoming set of distro releases. And if things are moving quickly, we certainly have the ability to do releases every 3 months instead of every 6. Regards, Anthony Liguori > Overall, there should be an update of the OpenBIOS images, otherwise > Sparc32 and I think PPC32 are ready. Sparc64 will not be without major > miracles in any case. PPC64 case may be interesting. > > >