Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 00/28] Memory API for 1.6: fix I/O port endianness mess

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 25/07/2013 11:38, Peter Maydell ha scritto:
> On 25 July 2013 10:00, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>> That's fine, I know you can fix stuff :-) I'm just really annoyed that
>> upstream qemu remained broken for so long (and still is) while the whole
>> thing derailed into a mostly pointless discussion on endianness and
>> nobody (including Alexey) hollered loud enough that the breakage was
>> fairly extensive
> 
> I think that for the minor architectures we just have to make
> sure that we do yell loudly when things are broken, because
> the nature of things is that people won't notice. Maybe we should
> have a qemu-urgent list to parallel qemu-trivial for compile
> fixes, reversions of bad breakage, etc, to try to keep them
> out of the general noise ?

My impression was that Alexey was fine with working temporarily on an
older version of QEMU.  So reverting the patches would have meant more
work for everyone.

Paolo