Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for 0.12.4

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 09:25:50AM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> >
> > > On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 10:08:45PM +0200, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Hi all,
> > > > >
> > > > > A number of fixes have been accumulated in the stable-0.12 branch, and
> > > > > I think it's time to release a new stable version. I would like to see
> > > > > that happening for the end of next week (around the 18th of April).
> > > > >
> > > > > If you want to see some patches included, please send a mail to the
> > > > > mailing list with the [STABLE] tag. I would clearly prefer patches that
> > > > > are already in HEAD (if the patch can simply be cherry-picked, there is
> > > > > no need to send a patch, just the commit number), though other patches
> > > > > might be considered too.
> > > >
> > > > Would be nice to backport the SCSI "crash&boot" patches. (was recently on
> > > > the list, if you need more infos let me know, already commited).
> > >
> > > Can you please point me to the corresponding patches? Do they apply
> > > directly to stable?
> >
> > No problem, last 6 patches from Gerd Hoffmann from:
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/log/hw/lsi53c895a.c
> >
> > Details:
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=6ac08101f9de84be1fb7b45f87caed8ba8f3eb5a
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=aa4d32c4742e62e09786bd1067a5b98239867e93
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=b96a0da06bd782ef290445479a6d4d0de00c2c23
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=daa70311e0f7b37cd0ea3c4de0d163ccf1a36abe
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=af12ac9880eacdd79d49a11d5672df7170afb38f
> > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/qemu.git/commit/?id=042ec49dc52e54153942a089a46ae584152998fb
> >
> > At least for the 0.12.3 release they work well (merged & tested). Don't
> > know about release branch (maybe something has already been merged).
>
> There is a lot of code refactoring in those patches, I am not sure we
> really want that in stable. Would it be possible to extract only the
> real fixes from those patches?

I'm not familiar with the code, so Gerd has to answer. The only thing I 
can say from the user perspective: After the patches all instability 
issues have been gone and also booting from SCSI ROM works well. I've used 
it now for~ 2 weeks without any problems on DOS, NT 4.0 and Knoppix.

Ciao,
Gerhard

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