Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2] pci, pc, virtio fixes and cleanups

[Igor Mammedov]

On Tue, 03 Mar 2015 15:44:29 +0100
Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 03/03/2015 15:37, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > Doesn't build with our minimum glib requirement, I'm afraid:
> > 
> > /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-for-merges/hw/acpi/aml-build.c:313:
> > undefined reference to `g_ptr_array_new_with_free_func'
> > 
> > (that function only appeared in glib 2.22.)
> 
> From a few weeks ago:
> 
> > Moving beyond 2.22 would be awkward for me in that my OSX
> > box only has 2.22 because fink doesn't have anything newer.
> > I could probably deal with that somehow (switching to some
> > other package system, probably).
> > 
> > Debian stable is "2.33.12+really2.32.4-5" and oldstable
> > is "2.24.2-1" (and if my googling is right is an LTS release).
> > 
> > Ubuntu Lucid (LTS release) is 2.24; Precise (also LTS)
> > is 2.32.
> > 
> > Daniel says RHEL6 has 2.28.
> > 
> > That suggests to me that we could reasonably advance to
> > 2.22 or 2.24 if it seemed beneficial, but not beyond that.
> > Is there anything particularly worthwhile that would get us?
> 
> Maybe we have a candidate now.  That function doesn't seem easy to
> replace, and it is pretty useful.
Looking at git history there were a number of followup fixes
where 2.13-2.22 function couldn't be used, if we switch to 2.24
we could cleanup that places also.

> 
> Paolo
>