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Re: [Qemu-devel] [FYI] Soft feature freeze for 1.0 is 10/15 (three weeks


From: Blue Swirl
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [FYI] Soft feature freeze for 1.0 is 10/15 (three weeks away)
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 17:31:53 +0000

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 09/25/2011 07:36 PM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Avi Kivity<address@hidden>  wrote:
>> >  On 09/24/2011 11:05 AM, Blue Swirl wrote:
>> >>
>> >>  On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 12:34 AM, Anthony
>> >> Liguori<address@hidden>
>> >>    wrote:
>> >>  >    Consider this a friendly reminder that we're only three weeks
>> >> away from
>> >>  >  the
>> >>  >    soft feature freeze for 1.0.  I've written a wiki page about my
>> >>  >  expectations
>> >>  >    for the soft feature freeze.  It's inlined here for easier
>> >> commenting.
>> >>
>> >>  I think the freezes and the release should be delayed until the memory
>> >>  API conversion is finished, deliberately shipping semi-broken code
>> >>  just to satisfy schedules does not benefit anyone but the schedule
>> >>  creator. It looks to me that converting all buses and devices might be
>> >>  finished by the deadline but it may as well take a bit more until
>> >>  everything works again.
>> >>
>> >
>> >  There is a difference between "incomplete conversion" and "semi-broken
>> >  code".  Any breakage should be fixed promptly, but after some freeze
>> > date
>> >  (not sure if this is the one proposed), additional conversions would be
>> >  pushed to 1.1.
>>
>> Well, there's PPC VGA which is semi-broken by the incomplete conversion.
>
> Please point out a test case and I'll try to fix it.

Run qemu-system-ppc without any arguments. There is a black bar
(because of vga.chain4), it shouldn't be there.



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