On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 9:01 AM Michal Nowak <mno...@startmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/28/18 10:41 AM, Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev wrote: > > Hi, folks. > > > > We are approaching October. While I have limited time now, I want to > > coordinate priorities and targets, what should we do till end of > > October (and due to personal reasons, I'd better announce snapshot > > till 20 October or earlier or allow someone else to do this). > > > > We have several regressions and problems, which would be good to > > fix. > > > > 1) Virtualbox failure after FPU changes > > https://www.illumos.org/issues/9761 , > > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17947 is a serious one, but I'm > > afraid I lack skills to fix it in reasonable time. The stack trace > > itself doesn't seem related to illumos-gate changes, but likely it > > is. In KVM Joyent fixed this using new hma_fpu_* API, but Virtualbox > > structures to store VM registers differ and from brief overlook it > > has several asm functions to store/restore Host/Base registers state. > > So far I don't have an idea how convert one to another. So, this > > likely will be broken in 2018.10 unless someone skillful dig into > > this. > > > > 2) sbcl issues - threaded sbcl can not be built after KPTI changes, > > it fails FLOCK and posix tests. Needs investigation. It's a serious > > issue, because threaded sbcl is needed to build pgloader. > > > > 3) Our Mate is a bit old, but newer Mate requires updated GTK3 . > > Updated GTK3 IIRC has dropped support for theme engines, and so our > > Nimbus theme based on unico engine doesn't work. Also I've heard > > there were issues with new mate-terminal. Michal, do you have some > > comments here? > > I run MATE 1.20 as seen in the PR and it works fine but: > > (1) Nimbus theme. I stick to "Traditional" theme. > > (2) Pluma text editor's text area blinks annoyingly. Might be an > Intel-only issue. Upstream issue reported. > > (3) MATE Terminal requires new vte library which does not work for us. > From my investigation I noticed that some #ifdef __sun were removed > from newer vte. Also I haven't seen new vte for non-Linux OS (pkgsrc, > BSDs, ...). > > I don't think I am able to do anything about those. > Which version does pkgsrc deliver? J. Perkin seems to have worked on MATE 1.20. > > > > > 4) As for new features, I really want to see KVM zones, perhaps, I'll > > dig into this shortly. > > > > Does somebody have another targets/comments? > > I will work on openQA tests for them to be in shape for the snapshot and > test the images once test-snapshot is available. > > Also I had some progress with Meson but can't promise this. > I packaged Meson last year but this is a mess... Need to implement the specificities of illumos systems all over again... and the way it is structures looks like the usual entangled "if(totoOS) {} else if (babarOS) else if (fooOS) {} etc...." all over the place. First thing back then was to notice that GCC => GNU ld in their rules... > > Michal > > > > > Please, avoid turning this topic in bike-shedding, I want to hear OI > > developers in a way "I ll take item #N" or "I expect to finish > > feature A before snapshot", not "please, also fix this and that". > > > > Best regards, Alexander Pyhalov, system administrator of Southern > > Federal University IT department > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ oi-dev mailing list > > oi-dev@openindiana.org > > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > oi-dev@openindiana.org > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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