Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release

[Jonathan Kalbfeld <jonathan.kalbfeld@gmail.com>]

Are the host details fixed on Solaris/SPARC?

Does anyone want access to my build environment to try and make it work?

I haven't gotten anything since the January 13, 2008 release to work
without SIGSEGV on a sparc.

jonathan

On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/4/09, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net> wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 02:48:22PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>> > What do people think?  TCG seems to be in a good place.  We've got
>>  > virtio, KVM, live migration, tons of new devices, bsd-user, etc.
>>  >
>>  > We could decide to cut one by the end of the month.  I'm already doing
>>  > some test work in QEMU so I can follow up with some more detailed notes
>>  > about what is working and what isn't working.  That gives us some time
>>  > to decide if there's anything we need to fix before a release.
>>  >
>>
>>
>> That's a really good idea.
>>
>>  I would like to see the switch of the remaining PowerPC machine from
>>  OpenHackware to OpenBIOS. We don't have the sources of the current
>>  ppc_rom.bin binary, and I don't feel comfortable making a release with
>>  it. We probably have the sources of an older version.
>>
>>  This at least concerned ppc_chrp.c (ppc_prep.c could probably simply
>>  be dropped).
>>
>>  I have no idea about how long it would take.
>
> PPC development on OpenBIOS side is taking quick leaps, I'd hate to
> rush a release just now when we are very close to a fully working
> system.
>
> On Sparc32/64 side, things are moving more slowly. Sparc32 is pretty
> much release quality with support for Linux, OpenBSD and NetBSD boot
> and a lot of boards. Sparc64 is still unusable, but it's not worth
> waiting for.
>
>
>



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