Re: [ACTIVITY] report week 44

On 5 November 2012 12:04, Peter Maydell peter.maydell@linaro.org wrote:

• Attended Linaro Connect; notable sessions:
  • Ubuntu plans for QEMU for Ringtail release = upstream qemu has merged qemu-kvm back in so Ubuntu will switch to qemu from qemu-kvm for x86 = also makes sense now to use upstream qemu for all archs (following Debian) rather than using qemu-linaro for non-x86: reasons for using q-l in Ubuntu now mostly fixed (ie upstream ARM support no longer dire). Ubuntu will carry omap3 patches to avoid dropping that feature in the changeover = makes sense for Linaro too as we now have an automated package-to-PPA setup for people who need bleeding-edge and also will want Ubuntu to transition to a more stably released and supported QEMU codebase to use for KVM-on-ARM-servers

I'm happy with that as: * One project for all arches is best * Linaro QEMU has a more bleeding edge approach than Linaro GCC * Upstream QEMU has a nice, short release cycle * We have a daily builds PPA

I'd like to add our monthly releases to a PPA for those who want to pick it up.

+ KVM Testing plans

  = worked through a list of things that would be nice to test;
    useful feedback from people in the session about what matters.
    Missing: specific commitment by anybody to write tests :-)

This is our (yet to be met) QA team. FYI, I've archived the Etherpad notes out at: https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/Connect/Q4.12Archive

-- Michael