Re: [Qemu-devel] How to provide build/CI environment for NetBSD host

[Ryo ONODERA]

Hi,

From: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>, Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 22:43:50 +0100

> On 4 April 2017 at 22:22, Ryo ONODERA <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I saw "Warning of unsupported host systems"
>> in http://wiki.qemu-project.org/ChangeLog/2.9 wiki page.
>>
>> I would like to contribute to qemu's NetBSD host support.
>>
>> I can provide NetBSD/amd64(x86_64) 7-stable build
>> environment as build/CI machine to the qemu project
>> if nobody provides it to the project yet.
>>
>> How to provide build/CI environment to the qemu project?
> 
> Thanks for the offer. Since then, I've been able to set up
> a NetBSD VM, which is probably a reasonable CI environment.

Good news for me! Thank you very much!

> However, the other reason why netbsd isn't in the supported
> list is that when I tried compiling it it didn't pass the basic
> 'make; make check' test. So obviously nobody's been
> using or testing it :-(

I use qemu from master branch (with some modification) every weekend.
However I had never run 'make check'.
I will run 'make check'.

> You could start with looking at the compile failures
> and submitting patches.

O.k.
Thank you.

> thanks
> -- PMM

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