Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-stable] Patch Round-up for stable 1.3.1, freeze Monday

[Doug Goldstein]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Michael Roth
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> The following new patches are queued for QEMU stable v1.3.1:
>
> https://github.com/mdroth/qemu/commits/stable-1.3-staging
>
> The release is planned for 01-25-2013:
>
> http://wiki.qemu.org/Planning/1.3
>
> Please CC address@hidden on any patches you think should be
> included in the release. The cut-off date is 01-21-2013 for new patches.
>
> Testing/feedback is greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
> 204dd38 raw-posix: fix bdrv_aio_ioctl (Paolo Bonzini)
> 86bab45 vfio-pci: Loosen sanity checks to allow future features (Alex 
> Williamson)
> 006c747 pci-assign: Enable MSIX on device to match guest (Alex Williamson)
> f042cca vfio-pci: Make host MSI-X enable track guest (Alex Williamson)
> 1205b80 target-xtensa: fix search_pc for the last TB opcode (Max Filippov)
> ff0c079 buffered_file: do not send more than s->bytes_xfer bytes per tick 
> (Paolo Bonzini)
> d745511 migration: fix migration_bitmap leak (Paolo Bonzini)
> 5afd0ec e1000: Discard oversized packets based on SBP|LPE (Michael Contreras)
> c4cd5b0 qxl+vnc: register a vm state change handler for dummy spice_server 
> (Uri Lublin)
> 7ca2496 qxl: save qemu_create_displaysurface_from result (Gerd Hoffmann)
> bfae937 target-xtensa: fix ITLB/DTLB page protection flags (Max Filippov)
> b68c48f pixman: fix vnc tight png/jpeg support (Gerd Hoffmann)
> 36fd817 Update seabios to a810e4e72a0d42c7bc04eda57382f8e019add901 (Gerd 
> Hoffmann)
> 0bc5f4a seabios: update to e8a76b0f225bba5ba9d63ab227e0a37b3beb1059 (Gerd 
> Hoffmann)
> 37e1428 vfio-pci: Don't use kvm_irqchip_in_kernel (Alex Williamson)
> 518799a target-mips: Fix incorrect shift for SHILO and SHILOV (Petar 
> Jovanovic)
> 16c5fe4 target-mips: Fix incorrect code and test for INSV (Petar Jovanovic)
> f1a2195 migration: Fix madvise breakage if host and guest have different page 
> sizes (David Gibson)
> 3b4fc1f Fix off-by-1 error in RAM migration code (David Gibson)
> d67d95f Disable semaphores fallback code for OpenBSD (Brad Smith)
> 0a7ad69 Fix semaphores fallback code (Brad Smith)
>
>

I'd be great if you could push this repo ahead of time so that we can
test it prior to the cut off and release. Honestly, when a patch is
selected to be shipped in a stable release it'd be great if it was
backported and pushed into that stable repo as that would allow for
more testing of the stable series. I know this increases your
maintenance burden but it would enable more distros to provide you
more meaningful feedback on stable releases so that they are truly
stable.

-- 
Doug Goldstein