Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/6] Running Microport UNIX (ca 1987)

[Peter Maydell]

On 24 August 2012 06:44, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2012-08-24 05:58, malc wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Matthew Ogilvie wrote:
>>
>>> After applying this version 2 of this patch series, I can
>>> successfully run "Micoport UNIX System V/386, v 2.1" (ca 1987)
>>> under qemu.  (although not if I try to enable KVM)
>>>
>>> Version 1 of this series was posted about 4 weeks ago.  See
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/list/?submitter=15654
>>>
>>> The patches are all independent, except that the documentation part
>>> of patch 5 (vga) adds onto patch 4 (retrace=) changes.
>>
>> [..snip..]
>>
>> Applied, thanks.
>
> Err, does this comply with the -rcX process? Patch 6 alone has been on
> the list for less than a day. Only now I was able to comment on it, and
> I would prefer to not have it merged that easily.

Adding a new command line option certainly looks like a new
feature rather than a bug fix to me, and really shouldn't
be going in at this point in the release cycle in my opinion.
I would suggest that these commits should all be reverted.

Thanks
-- Peter Maydell