Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 8/9] tests: Add OpenBSD image

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 1/25/19 7:38 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 18:36, Brad Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/25/2019 1:24 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>
>>> On 2019-01-25 01:48, Brad Smith wrote:
>>>> Our ports tree has an option which results in the QEMU binaries being
>>>> linked with "-z wxneeded".
>>> Then it's maybe high time to send such changes upstream now ;-)
>>
>>
>> I have not considered submitting such a patch as it's just a workaround
>> for an
>> issue within QEMU. Everything else that we had as local patches or local
>> build
>> fiddling to build things properly has been integrated in some manner.
> 
> We'll happily take a patch that fixes the underlying issue properly
> if you'd prefer...

I sent "configure: Disable W^X on OpenBSD" to help upstream developers
to test their patches on OpenBSD here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-01/msg06674.html

Regards,

Phil.