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Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release


From: Anthony Liguori
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Cutting a new QEMU release
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:41 -0600
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Laurent Desnogues wrote:
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 10:50 PM, Anthony Liguori <address@hidden> wrote:
Laurent Desnogues wrote:
For instance someone (Andzrej?) mentionned  ARM in system mode is half
slower than it was before TCG.  Also the ARM target needs some fixing.

Perhaps doing at least one release candidate to get feedback (and focus on
fixing reported bugs) would be appropriate.

A release doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.  I think what matters
most is whether something is likely to be fixed in the reasonably near
future.  We're going to have some regressions compared to 0.9.1.  There are
a number of platforms that are no longer supported (ia64 and s390, for
instance) but we could wait another year and I doubt these features would
appear.

I agree we should not care now about targets that are not here anymore.
But things that are important for the community should be taken with
care (and arm linux user mode is certainly a very important target).

If someone is actively fixing it, then I'm perfectly happy to wait. If it's a known issue that noone is resolving, I don't think delaying a release helps anyone. However, documenting all of these things somewhere so that they are clearly visible may make it easier for someone to fix so the process of going through a release would probably be helpful in general.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Laurent







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