From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUltt-0007Gm-11 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:51:01 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUlts-0007GH-4Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:51:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33404 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUltr-0007G8-QE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:50:59 -0500 Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.46.154]:45810) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUltr-0003gn-DR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:50:59 -0500 Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 6so1278764ywa.82 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:50:55 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <4988AD96.6090308@codemonkey.ws> <20090204145052.GF19995@volta.aurel32.net> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 09:50:54 -0800 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release From: Jonathan Kalbfeld Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 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 wrote: > On 2/4/09, Aurelien Jarno 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. > > > -- -- Jonathan Kalbfeld ThoughtWave Technologies LLC www.thoughtwave.com "Yes, we did!" Learn UNIX For Free at unixlessons.com