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

[Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>]

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.