Re: [OpenBIOS] [Qemu-devel] How are we looking for a release?

[Blue Swirl]

On 2/27/09, Anthony Liguori <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wanted to see how we look from a release perspective.  For x86, I think
> things are looking pretty good.  There are a couple outstanding patches that
> need more review (like the CVE fix) but I think we'll be ready in a few
> days.
>
> How are the other architectures looking?  Are there any major bug fixes
> people are working on?  PPC is now fully converted to OpenBIOS, right?

Yes, except for PREP.

There are recent patches to make PPC64 work that should be committed
in the coming days. That would be a nice addition but not critical.

We have also discussed about making also an OpenBIOS (1.0) release,
the previous release candidate (1.0RC1) is more than year old. It
would be great to release Qemu with 1.0 OpenBIOS.

Overall, there should be an update of the OpenBIOS images, otherwise
Sparc32 and I think PPC32 are ready. Sparc64 will not be without major
miracles in any case. PPC64 case may be interesting.

[Qemu-devel] How are we looking for a release?

[Anthony Liguori]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 2/27/09, Anthony Liguori <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wanted to see how we look from a release perspective.  For x86, I think
> > things are looking pretty good.  There are a couple outstanding patches that
> > need more review (like the CVE fix) but I think we'll be ready in a few
> > days.
> >
> > How are the other architectures looking?  Are there any major bug fixes
> > people are working on?  PPC is now fully converted to OpenBIOS, right?
>
> Yes, except for PREP.

Is anyone working on converting PREP?  Any ETA?
> There are recent patches to make PPC64 work that should be committed
> in the coming days. That would be a nice addition but not critical.
>
> We have also discussed about making also an OpenBIOS (1.0) release,
> the previous release candidate (1.0RC1) is more than year old. It
> would be great to release Qemu with 1.0 OpenBIOS.

It would be great to have a 1.0 release for our release, but do you have 
an ETA on when that would be?  It would be very good to get out a QEMU 
release within the next few days to match up with the upcoming set of 
distro releases.

And if things are moving quickly, we certainly have the ability to do 
releases every 3 months instead of every 6.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> Overall, there should be an update of the OpenBIOS images, otherwise
> Sparc32 and I think PPC32 are ready. Sparc64 will not be without major
> miracles in any case. PPC64 case may be interesting.

[Qemu-devel] How are we looking for a release?

[Blue Swirl]

On 2/27/09, Anthony Liguori <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Blue Swirl wrote:
> > On 2/27/09, Anthony Liguori <[e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I wanted to see how we look from a release perspective.  For x86, I
> > > think
> > > things are looking pretty good.  There are a couple outstanding patches
> > > that
> > > need more review (like the CVE fix) but I think we'll be ready in a few
> > > days.
> > >
> > > How are the other architectures looking?  Are there any major bug fixes
> > > people are working on?  PPC is now fully converted to OpenBIOS, right?
> >
> > Yes, except for PREP.
>
> Is anyone working on converting PREP?  Any ETA?

Qemu side would be easy, but OpenBIOS side would need a lot of work.
I'd guess days to a few weeks. But I think Aurelien also mentioned
that PREP is not so interesting target anyway. Still, the original
problem was distributing OHW without sources being available and then
one machine would still depend on OHW.
> > There are recent patches to make PPC64 work that should be committed
> > in the coming days. That would be a nice addition but not critical.
> >
> > We have also discussed about making also an OpenBIOS (1.0) release,
> > the previous release candidate (1.0RC1) is more than year old. It
> > would be great to release Qemu with 1.0 OpenBIOS.
>
> It would be great to have a 1.0 release for our release, but do you have an
> ETA on when that would be?  It would be very good to get out a QEMU release
> within the next few days to match up with the upcoming set of distro
> releases.

The sources are IMHO ready (except maybe for a quick PPC64 commit),
but we need Stefan for web site release management. Stefan, would this
weekend be OK for 1.0 release?

[Qemu-devel] How are we looking for a release?

[Stefan Reinauer]

Blue Swirl wrote:
> > It would be great to have a 1.0 release for our release, but do you have an
> > ETA on when that would be?  It would be very good to get out a QEMU release
> > within the next few days to match up with the upcoming set of distro
> > releases.
>
> The sources are IMHO ready (except maybe for a quick PPC64 commit),
> but we need Stefan for web site release management. Stefan, would this
> weekend be OK for 1.0 release?

Sure, any time. If you wish to have a wiki account for changing/adding
the openbios/openfirmware pages, please let me know.

Stefan

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