Re: [Qemu-devel] Release plan for 0.12.0

[TAKEDA, toshiya]

Anthony Liguori さんは書きました:
>Hi,
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>Now that 0.11.0 is behind us, it's time to start thinking about 0.12.0.
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>I'd like to do a few things different this time around.  I don't think 
>the -rc process went very well as I don't think we got more testing out 
>of it.  I'd like to shorten the timeline for 0.12.0 a good bit.  The 
>0.10 stable tree got pretty difficult to maintain toward the end of the 
>cycle.  We also had a pretty huge amount of change between 0.10 and 0.11 
>so I think a shorter cycle is warranted.
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>I think aiming for early to mid-December would give us roughly a 3 month 
>cycle and would align well with some of the Linux distribution cycles.  
>I'd like to limit things to a single -rc that lasted only for about a 
>week.  This is enough time to fix most of the obvious issues I think.
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>I'd also like to try to enumerate some features for this release.  
>Here's a short list of things I expect to see for this release 
>(target-i386 centric).  Please add or comment on items that you'd either 
>like to see in the release or are planning on working on.
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> o VMState conversion -- I expect most of the pc target to be completed
> o qdev conversion -- I hope that we'll get most of the pc target 
>completely converted to qdev
> o storage live migration
> o switch to SeaBIOS (need to finish porting features from Bochs)
> o switch to gPXE (need to resolve slirp tftp server issue)
> o KSM integration
> o in-kernel APIC support for KVM
> o guest SMP support for KVM
> o updates to the default pc machine type
>
>Please add to this list and I'll collect it all and post it somewhere.

o NEC PC-9821 family support on target-i386

In the last patch MS-DOS can boot on QEMU.
I think I can add support nic (LGY-98) and IDE in 0.12.0
and I hope I can boot FreeBSD/pc98 on it.

PS.
I will repost v3 patch in the next week, please wait reviewing v2 patch I post 
Oct.1.

Thanks,
TAKEDA, toshiya

>Thanks!
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>Regards,
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>Anthony Liguori
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