Re: [Xen-devel] Question about upstream qemu and seabios on xen git

[Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>]

Il 29/07/2013 11:06, Ian Campbell ha scritto:
> On Fri, 2013-07-26 at 16:17 +0200, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> > I continue to do periodical test of xen-unstable with latest stable
> > and/or unstable upstream qemu and seabios version.
> > Today for example I start to test qemu 1.5.1, no bugs found for now.
> >
> > I think is better to maintain updated upstream qemu and seabios also on
> > xen gits while xen is not "code freeze".
> > For xen develop/testing xen gits are mainly used, but on production the
> > distributions will use latest stable qemu version (for example on debian
> > experimental is releasing xen 4.3 and qemu is already 1.5.1 on debian
> > unstable but xen 4.3 was freezed with qemu 1.3 and mainly tested with it).
> > Therefore should be best to have all components early updated as possible.
> I'm not entirely sure what you are suggesting but it sounds like you
> simply want to pull upstream qemu and seabios for testing purposes? If
> so then I think there is nothing wrong with pulling these directly from
> their respective upstreams, so long as you clearly indicate this (and
> the version being tested) in any bug reports.
>
> Ian.
Thanks for reply.
To test latest upstream qemu and seabios version I already use debian 
packages (latest stable version) or I change Config.mk of xen to point 
upstream gits instead (for unstable version).
Based of my example of some months ago its seem that xen 
developers/testers are using only xen git except rare cases, so I mean 
that xen gits of qemu and seabios should pull from upstream gits most 
frequently.
> > An example of a critical bug found testing latest qemu version (hvm
> > domUs with qemu 1.4 was unable to boot with stdvga) found using more
> > updated qemu that was already on debian repository but not on git used
> > by xen:
> > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commit;h=2e814a017155b885e4d4b5a88dc05e7367a9722a
> >
> > Thanks for any reply

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