From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40875) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcdmE-0000Ce-6k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 11:38:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcdmC-000434-MC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 11:38:02 -0400 Received: from e23smtp05.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.147]:35243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcdmC-00042g-4a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 11:38:00 -0400 Received: from /spool/local by e23smtp05.au.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:32:29 +1000 Received: from d23relay05.au.ibm.com (d23relay05.au.ibm.com [9.190.235.152]) by d23dlp03.au.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D604F357804E for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:37:49 +1000 (EST) Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (d23av03.au.ibm.com [9.190.234.97]) by d23relay05.au.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id r4FFNeBR17039440 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:23:40 +1000 Received: from d23av03.au.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d23av03.au.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id r4FFbmn4009720 for ; Thu, 16 May 2013 01:37:48 +1000 From: Anthony Liguori In-Reply-To: <519391E2.4050600@redhat.com> References: <1368622839-7084-1-git-send-email-kwolf@redhat.com> <51938A88.3060306@redhat.com> <20130515132450.GE2858@dhcp-200-207.str.redhat.com> <519391E2.4050600@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 10:37:43 -0500 Message-ID: <8761ykdzjs.fsf@codemonkey.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5?] ide-test: Fix endianness problems List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini , Kevin Wolf Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, stefanha@redhat.com, Michael Roth Paolo Bonzini 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 >>> >>> 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