[Qemu-devel] Time to cut a new release?

[Qemu-devel] Time to cut a new release?

[Gerd Hoffmann]

   Hi,

A bunch of new stuff has been added to master since the last version, 
time to release a new one?  Especially I'd like to see qemu get a 
seabios update, and anthony prefers a release instead of a git snapshot 
for that.

cheers,
   Gerd

Re: [Qemu-devel] Time to cut a new release?

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/04/2011 01:49 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A bunch of new stuff has been added to master since the last version,
> time to release a new one? Especially I'd like to see qemu get a seabios
> update, and anthony prefers a release instead of a git snapshot for that.

What's left in order to enable CONFIG_AHCI by default too?  I'd really 
prefer not to carry a custom config for QEMU if it's possible.

Maybe this is a good time to coordinate a release around the next QEMU 
release too.  I'm guessing that October would be a pretty good time to 
freeze on a new SeaBIOS so if there was an October release, that would 
work very well for us.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> cheers,
> Gerd
>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] Time to cut a new release?

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:10:10PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 08/04/2011 01:49 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >A bunch of new stuff has been added to master since the last version,
> >time to release a new one? Especially I'd like to see qemu get a seabios
> >update, and anthony prefers a release instead of a git snapshot for that.
> 
> What's left in order to enable CONFIG_AHCI by default too?  I'd
> really prefer not to carry a custom config for QEMU if it's
> possible.

I'm okay with defaulting AHCI on.  The 32bit trampolining could
theoretically be a problem, but there have been no trouble reports to
date.

> Maybe this is a good time to coordinate a release around the next
> QEMU release too.  I'm guessing that October would be a pretty good
> time to freeze on a new SeaBIOS so if there was an October release,
> that would work very well for us.

I'm okay with that.  We could probably arrange a release even sooner.

-Kevin

Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] Time to cut a new release?

[Marc Jones]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:10:10PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> On 08/04/2011 01:49 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >A bunch of new stuff has been added to master since the last version,
>> >time to release a new one? Especially I'd like to see qemu get a seabios
>> >update, and anthony prefers a release instead of a git snapshot for that.
>>
>> What's left in order to enable CONFIG_AHCI by default too?  I'd
>> really prefer not to carry a custom config for QEMU if it's
>> possible.
>
> I'm okay with defaulting AHCI on.  The 32bit trampolining could
> theoretically be a problem, but there have been no trouble reports to
> date.
>
>> Maybe this is a good time to coordinate a release around the next
>> QEMU release too.  I'm guessing that October would be a pretty good
>> time to freeze on a new SeaBIOS so if there was an October release,
>> that would work very well for us.
>
> I'm okay with that.  We could probably arrange a release even sooner.

I think that AHCI on would be good. What about ATA DMA and ATA 32bit PIO?

Marc


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Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] Time to cut a new release?

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:59:44PM -0600, Marc Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 02:10:10PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >> On 08/04/2011 01:49 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >A bunch of new stuff has been added to master since the last version,
> >> >time to release a new one? Especially I'd like to see qemu get a seabios
> >> >update, and anthony prefers a release instead of a git snapshot for that.
> >>
> >> What's left in order to enable CONFIG_AHCI by default too?  I'd
> >> really prefer not to carry a custom config for QEMU if it's
> >> possible.
> >
> > I'm okay with defaulting AHCI on.  The 32bit trampolining could
> > theoretically be a problem, but there have been no trouble reports to
> > date.
> >
> >> Maybe this is a good time to coordinate a release around the next
> >> QEMU release too.  I'm guessing that October would be a pretty good
> >> time to freeze on a new SeaBIOS so if there was an October release,
> >> that would work very well for us.
> >
> > I'm okay with that.  We could probably arrange a release even sooner.
> 
> I think that AHCI on would be good. What about ATA DMA and ATA 32bit PIO?

ATA DMA caused me a bit of pain this morning, it didn't want to work.

32-bit PIO is probably mostly-safe these days.

	Jonathan Kollasch