RAG: Red: Amber: DATE/QEMU conference still hasn't confirmed I have a place... Green: qemu-linaro RC2 prerelease uploaded

Current Milestones: | Planned | Estimate | Actual | first qemu-linaro release | 2011-02-08 | 2011-02-08 | |

Historical Milestones: finish virtio-system | 2010-08-27 | postponed | | finish testing PCI patches | 2010-10-01 | 2010-10-22 | 2010-10-18 | successful ARM qemu pull req | 2010-12-16 | 2010-12-16 | 2010-12-16 | finish qemu-cont-integration | 2010-01-25 | 2010-01-25 | handed off |

* maintain-beagle-models: + RC1 packaging flushed out some bugs: ++ we include some binary blobs which we're better not distributing: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+bug/709965 ++ a couple of array overruns don't compile with our picky armel gcc: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+bug/709711 https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+bug/711272 (both fixes sent and applied upstream) ++ we ought to include a fix for the "swp" in qemu-lock.h: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/81205/ (patch sent upstream, no comment on it yet) + ...so I have rolled an RC2 tarball with these fixed + investigated why USB keyboard model doesn't work: it turns out that the OMAP host USB model is basically just a stub + some warnings from qemu about bad width accesses are a symptom of a nasty disagreement between gcc and the kernel about getting atomic 32 bit accesses: http://www.spinics.net/lists/arm-kernel/msg113002.html + warnings from qemu about access to a nonexistent i2c register appear to be a kernel bug in the i2c driver for OMAP36xx: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/645324 + investigated a hang running images built with linaro-media-create's --swap_file option. Still digging but I suspect the Linux driver doesn't cope with an MMC card which can erase in zero time...

* merge-correctness-fixes + the usual upstream mailing list monitoring and code review + sent patch for PLI and hint space decoding fixes: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/81711/

* misc + some non-Linaro time this week; may be more next week + some advance planning of what we might want to do with QEMU in the future

Current qemu patch status is tracked here: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/QemuPatchStatus

Absences: 17/18 March: QEMU Users Forum, Grenoble Holiday: 22 Apr - 2 May 9-13 May: UDS, Budapest (maybe) ~17-19 August: QEMU/KVM strand at LinuxCon NA, Vancouver