On 3/7/19 3:57 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 03:28:20PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> Since OpenBSD 6.0, the W^X protection is enforced by default. >> TCG is incompatible with this protection, to be able to use the >> QEMU binary, this protection has to be disabled. >> The OpenBSD ports seens to have downstream patches to be able to >> use QEMU, but these patches were never upstreamed. >> This series allow to run QEMU when built from the mainstream sources. >> >> I salvaged the minimum patches required to be able to run OpenBSD >> from a previous series, which aimed at running the QEMU QTest suite >> on OpenBSD. Sadly it seems there is not much interest in having this >> OS covered by tests (except by Peter Maydell). > > What were the blocking issues with getting the test fixes accepted in > previous postings ? Was it simply no one interested in reviewing it > or actual review problems ? > > With our increased interest in CI & push to drop build targets which > are not actively maintained, I'd question whether OpenBSD (or any > build target in the same situation) should continue to be supported > if the test suite hasn't worked for several releases in a row & not > enough people are willing to contribute to fix it.
It is true nobody complained about this OS since the 6.0 release on Sep 1, 2016, more than 2 years ago. Looking at the mailing archive, Peter is the only one reporting build failures since.
