Re: QEMU 6.2.0 and rhbz#1999878

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 04:20:23PM -0300, Eduardo Lima wrote:
> Hi Rich,
> 
> Can you confirm if the patch you added for qemu in Fedora has still not been
> merged upstream? I could not find it on the git source tree.
> 
> +Patch2: 0001-tcg-arm-Reduce-vector-alignment-requirement-for-NEON.patch
> +From 1331e4eec016a295949009b4360c592401b089f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> +From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> +Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 10:49:25 -0700
> +Subject: [PATCH] tcg/arm: Reduce vector alignment requirement for NEON

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999878
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-09/msg01028.html

The patch I posted wasn't correct (or meant to be), it was just a
workaround.  However I think you're right - I don't believe the
original problem was ever fixed.

Let's see what upstreams says ...

Rich.

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