From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:43444) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1vRh-0008Qy-1G for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:00:38 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1vRg-0001jc-0s for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:00:32 -0500 Received: from mail-wr1-f68.google.com ([209.85.221.68]:33265) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h1vRf-0001iw-Qe for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:00:31 -0500 Received: by mail-wr1-f68.google.com with SMTP id i12so18039858wrw.0 for ; Thu, 07 Mar 2019 08:00:31 -0800 (PST) References: <20190307142822.8531-1-philmd@redhat.com> <20190307145756.GG32268@redhat.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= Message-ID: <559dbb08-1bfb-19ef-2d64-ed384883ab24@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:00:29 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190307145756.GG32268@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] OpenBSD: Let QEMU 4.0 be usable from OpenBSD 6.0 and onwards List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2e_Berrang=c3=a9?= Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell , Paolo Bonzini , Brad Smith On 3/7/19 3:57 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> Since OpenBSD 6.0, the W^X protection is enforced by default. >> TCG is incompatible with this protection, to be able to use the >> QEMU binary, this protection has to be disabled. >> The OpenBSD ports seens to have downstream patches to be able to >> use QEMU, but these patches were never upstreamed. >> This series allow to run QEMU when built from the mainstream sources. >> >> I salvaged the minimum patches required to be able to run OpenBSD >> from a previous series, which aimed at running the QEMU QTest suite >> on OpenBSD. Sadly it seems there is not much interest in having this >> OS covered by tests (except by Peter Maydell). > > What were the blocking issues with getting the test fixes accepted in > previous postings ? Was it simply no one interested in reviewing it > or actual review problems ? > > With our increased interest in CI & push to drop build targets which > are not actively maintained, I'd question whether OpenBSD (or any > build target in the same situation) should continue to be supported > if the test suite hasn't worked for several releases in a row & not > enough people are willing to contribute to fix it. It is true nobody complained about this OS since the 6.0 release on Sep 1, 2016, more than 2 years ago. Looking at the mailing archive, Peter is the only one reporting build failures since.