Re: [Qemu-devel] Should we have a 2.0-rc3 ?

[Peter Maydell]

On 10 April 2014 12:17, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> So far I know of at least three fixes which should probably
> go into 2.0:
>  * my fix for the configure stack-protector checks on MacOSX
>  * MST's pull request updating the ACPI test blobs
>  * MST says we need to update the hex files for ACPI too
>    (otherwise you get a different ACPI blob depending on whether
>     your build system had iasl or not, if I understand correctly)
>
> Are there any others?
>
> So we have two choices:
>
> (A) get those fixes into git today, and tag an rc3; that
> would then need some testing time and presumably we'd hope
> to tag it as the 2.0 release on Monday or Tuesday next week
>
> (B) say that the above are not worth fixing in 2.0 proper
> and plan to do a 2.0.1 in a few weeks with the above plus
> any other breakage that people find.

OK, consensus seems to be that we have enough
showstoppers to merit an rc3. I'm going to start
applying the fixes we have; if we can get fixes for
the others by tomorrow (Friday) we can maybe do
the rc3 tag then.

thanks
-- PMM