On Tue, 8 May 2012, Anthony Liguori wrote: > Hi, > > I was hoping we'd have a solution by now but it looks like we don't. I'm > going to delay the qemu-1.0-rc1 release until tomorrow. I'd like to propose a > couple paths forward. Here's my understanding of the situation: > > 1) TCG changes were made for the Sparc/Alpha targets that use AREG0 > > 2) AREG0 never worked properly on ppc32 hosts > > 3) Until recently, this caused a runtime failure of the Sparc/Alpha targets on > ppc32. However, malc recently changed this to a build time failure. > > I don't feel comfortable shipping a release candidate with a known failing > build. Here are the options: > > a) Revert malc's change. I don't think this is much better than shipping a > broken build. > > b) Disable sparc/alpha targets in default_target_list on ppc32 hosts. I think > is probably the best short term approach. > > c) Wait for Andreas' patches (I believe Alex detected a problem in the current > version). > > Unless anyone strongly objects, I'm going to implement (b) tomorrow morning so > we can keep the -rc cycle moving. I would hope that we'll have something > worked out for (c) by -rc2. >
I have no probelm with this, apart from rather shady definition of tomorow. -- mailto:av1...@comtv.ru
