On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> 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.
[nitpicking] qemu-1.1-rc1 ? > 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. > > Regards, > > Anthony Liguori > > -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko solaris/sparc under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu