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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-1.0-rc1 delayed (need fix for PPC32 build)
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malc |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-1.0-rc1 delayed (need fix for PPC32 build) |
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Wed, 9 May 2012 05:56:56 +0400 (MSK) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Tue, 8 May 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping we'd have a solution by now but it looks like we don't. I'm
> going to delay the qemu-1.0-rc1 release until tomorrow. I'd like to propose a
> couple paths forward. Here's my understanding of the situation:
>
> 1) TCG changes were made for the Sparc/Alpha targets that use AREG0
>
> 2) AREG0 never worked properly on ppc32 hosts
>
> 3) Until recently, this caused a runtime failure of the Sparc/Alpha targets on
> ppc32. However, malc recently changed this to a build time failure.
>
> I don't feel comfortable shipping a release candidate with a known failing
> build. Here are the options:
>
> a) Revert malc's change. I don't think this is much better than shipping a
> broken build.
>
> b) Disable sparc/alpha targets in default_target_list on ppc32 hosts. I think
> is probably the best short term approach.
>
> c) Wait for Andreas' patches (I believe Alex detected a problem in the current
> version).
>
> Unless anyone strongly objects, I'm going to implement (b) tomorrow morning so
> we can keep the -rc cycle moving. I would hope that we'll have something
> worked out for (c) by -rc2.
>
I have no probelm with this, apart from rather shady definition of
tomorow.
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