Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/2] OpenBSD: Let QEMU 4.0 be usable from OpenBSD 6.0 and onwards

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 3/7/19 3:57 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>> Since OpenBSD 6.0, the W^X protection is enforced by default.
>> TCG is incompatible with this protection, to be able to use the
>> QEMU binary, this protection has to be disabled.
>> The OpenBSD ports seens to have downstream patches to be able to
>> use QEMU, but these patches were never upstreamed.
>> This series allow to run QEMU when built from the mainstream sources.
>>
>> I salvaged the minimum patches required to be able to run OpenBSD
>> from a previous series, which aimed at running the QEMU QTest suite
>> on OpenBSD. Sadly it seems there is not much interest in having this
>> OS covered by tests (except by Peter Maydell).
> 
> What were the blocking issues with getting the test fixes accepted in
> previous postings ?  Was it simply no one interested in reviewing it
> or actual review problems ?
> 
> With our increased interest in CI & push to drop build targets which
> are not actively maintained, I'd question whether OpenBSD (or any
> build target in the same situation) should continue to be supported
> if the test suite hasn't worked for several releases in a row & not
> enough people are willing to contribute to fix it.

It is true nobody complained about this OS since the 6.0 release on
Sep 1, 2016, more than 2 years ago.

Looking at the mailing archive, Peter is the only one reporting build
failures since.