[ACTIVITY] report week ending 4 Jan

(Short week, 2 days)

Progress: * VIRT-65 [QEMU upstream maintainership] - catching up on email/review backlogs from the holidays - investigating a weird failure where running 'make check' in a loop would cause make to complain "make: write error: stdout". This seems to be because one or two of our test cases would put stdin/stdout into O_NONBLOCK, which then made make's output routines fall over...

thanks -- PMM