Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] Fix cacheline size retrieval on FreeBSD/PowerPC(64)

[Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019, 13:04 Justin Hibbits <chmeeedalf@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:47:42 +0200
> Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:
>
> > Le 26/06/2019 à 18:37, Justin Hibbits a écrit :
> > > On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 18:16:36 +0200
> > > Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Le 26/06/2019 à 18:14, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
> > >>> Le 07/06/2019 à 20:56, Justin Hibbits a écrit :
> > >>>> The attached very trivial patch fixes a startup bug that prevents
> > >>>> at least Qemu 3.1 and later from working on FreeBSD/powerpc64.
> > >>>>
> > >>>> - Justin
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> Please don't send a patch in attachment but inlined in the message
> > >>> (you may use "git send-email" for that).
> > >>>
> > >>> This patch fixes "util: add cacheinfo" that has changed the type
> > >>> from unsigned to long.
> > >>>
> > >>> You can add the following line in the commit message:
> > >>>
> > >>> Fixes: b255b2c8a548 ("util: add cacheinfo")
> > >>>
> > >>> Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> CC: author of b255b2c8a548 ("util: add cacheinfo")
> > >>
> > >> Thanks,
> > >> Laurent
> > >
> > > Hi Laurent,
> > >
> > > Sorry.  I had never used git send-email before, so wasn't
> > > comfortable with it.  I just updated the commit message with your
> > > feedback and used git send-email to submit the patch.  I hope
> > > everything went well.
> >
> > It seems not. I didn't receive it.
> >
> > Did you configure the SMTP server. See git-send-email(1):
> >
> >    Use gmail as the smtp server
> >
> >        To use git send-email to send your patches through the GMail
> > SMTP server, edit ~/.gitconfig to specify your account settings:
> >
> >            [sendemail]
> >                    smtpEncryption = tls
> >                    smtpServer = smtp.gmail.com
> >                    smtpUser = yourname@gmail.com
> >                    smtpServerPort = 587
> >
> >        If you have multifactor authentication setup on your gmail
> > account, you will need to generate an app-specific password for use
> > with git send-email. Visit
> >        https://security.google.com/settings/security/apppasswords to
> > create it.
> >
> >        Once your commits are ready to be sent to the mailing list,
> > run the following commands:
> >
> >            $ git format-patch --cover-letter -M origin/master -o
> > outgoing/ $ edit outgoing/0000-*
> >            $ git send-email outgoing/*
> >
> >        The first time you run it, you will be prompted for your
> > credentials. Enter the app-specific or your regular password as
> > appropriate. If you have credential helper configured (see
> > git-credential(1)), the password will be saved in the credential
> > store so you won’t have to type it the next time.
> >
> >        Note: the following perl modules are required Net::SMTP::SSL,
> >        MIME::Base64 and Authen::SASL
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Laurent
> >
> >
>
> Hm, you're right.  Even after making the config changes and installing
> the necessary packages, I still have no luck with git send-email.  Might
> take a bit to debug this.
>
> - Justin
>

Sorry for the multiplicity, looks like Gmail forwarded it eventually, but
not until I tried several times debugging it.

- Justin

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