From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56651) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ik0-0008A5-KZ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:25:49 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ijz-0006na-BR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:25:48 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:43140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1V2Ijz-0006nU-2x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 06:25:47 -0400 Message-ID: <1374747927.6142.76.camel@pasglop> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:25:27 +1000 In-Reply-To: <51F0F27B.9030105@redhat.com> References: <1374501278-31549-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <87ip02wqvn.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <1374729976.6142.61.camel@pasglop> <1374731256.6142.63.camel@pasglop> <51F0E47D.1060807@redhat.com> <1374742849.6142.72.camel@pasglop> <51F0F27B.9030105@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] Memory API for 1.6: fix I/O port endianness mess List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Paolo Bonzini Cc: Peter Maydell , Anthony Liguori , aik@ozlabs.ru, jan.kiszka@siemens.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, agraf@suse.de, hpoussin@reactos.org, aurelien@aurel32.net On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 11:40 +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > I think that for the minor architectures we just have to make > > sure that we do yell loudly when things are broken, because > > the nature of things is that people won't notice. Maybe we should > > have a qemu-urgent list to parallel qemu-trivial for compile > > fixes, reversions of bad breakage, etc, to try to keep them > > out of the general noise ? > > My impression was that Alexey was fine with working temporarily on an > older version of QEMU. So reverting the patches would have meant more > work for everyone. Possibly but we have plenty of other people who use upstream qemu. I've been actively encouraging people in the community and distros to use qemu for testing their stuff on powerpc without HW access for example, and even internally to IBM, not everybody uses Alexey internal tree. Talking of which ... I really really really need to take a day or two off and use them to fix the Mac G5 model once and for all :-) Cheers, Ben.