From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38203) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcirW-0004DH-D4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:27:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcirV-0007EB-6H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:27:02 -0500 Received: from mail-iy0-f173.google.com ([209.85.210.173]:62654) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RcirU-0007Dk-5Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:27:00 -0500 Received: by iagj37 with SMTP id j37so10146970iag.4 for ; Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:26:59 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4EEF8FFB.7060606@codemonkey.ws> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 13:26:51 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20111217082958.GJ2520@amd.home.annexia.org> <4EECB1B0.7050404@codemonkey.ws> <4EECB3C5.6060608@codemonkey.ws> <20111217152514.GM2520@amd.home.annexia.org> <4EECC227.4060904@codemonkey.ws> <20111217164956.GA16848@morn.localdomain> <20111219103101.GB27938@redhat.com> <4EEF7595.7060301@codemonkey.ws> <20111219174307.GB2558@redhat.com> <4EEF7C53.6050800@codemonkey.ws> <20111219191909.GB3425@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20111219191909.GB3425@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] insmod virtio-blk is broken in qemu 1.0 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Daniel P. Berrange" Cc: "seabios@seabios.org" , "Richard W.M. Jones" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Max Filippov , Kevin O'Connor , Avi Kivity , Amit Shah , Gerd Hoffmann On 12/19/2011 01:19 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 12:02:59PM -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> I would like to point out that August -> October is a pretty long >> time period for a regression like this to exist. I think that >> really indicates that the primary problem is testing, not frequency >> of SeaBIOS updates. > > One complication is that alot of us are not necessarily testing the > SeaBIOS that is in QEMU GIT. Fedora rawhide includes qemu-kvm.git > snapshots which are updated fairly frequently, but we don't use > the SeaBIOS QEMU includes. Instead Fedora includes the latest > SeaBIOS upstream release. I understand why Debian and Fedora do this but it is unfortunate from a QA perspective. Fedora is on a different release schedule than QEMU, so it's easy for it to do an "upstream freeze", and grab the latest SeaBIOS release and QEMU release. But we don't treat SeaBIOS as a separate package supporting arbitrary combinations of SeaBIOS and QEMU. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > So Fedora 16/rawhide users would never have seen this particular > bug for longer than a couple of weeks until the fixed SeaBIOS > arrived. > > Regards, > Daniel