From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUlie-0002vH-22 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:39:24 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUliW-0002uo-Or for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:39:22 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43897 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUliW-0002ul-Lp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:39:16 -0500 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.155]:1935) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUliV-0002M0-Bu for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:39:16 -0500 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so1354392fga.8 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:39:10 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090204145052.GF19995@volta.aurel32.net> References: <4988AD96.6090308@codemonkey.ws> <20090204145052.GF19995@volta.aurel32.net> Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release From: Blue Swirl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 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.