On 16 May 2011 13:20, karim.allah.ahmed@gmail.com karim.allah.ahmed@gmail.com wrote:
Can somebody please explain how development happens regarding qemu-linaro ?
I've taken a look here [0] and If I'm not mistaken, there's no code in the repo.
We don't keep qemu-linaro in a launchpad bzr repo. The code lives in the Linaro git repository: http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=qemu/qemu-linaro.git%3Ba=summary
https://wiki.linaro.org/WorkingGroups/ToolChain/QEMU is intended to be a brief summary of the aims of the qemu-linaro tree, but briefly, the idea is to provide a staging post for ARM releated QEMU work which we are planning to push upstream but haven't yet. Currently the major feature in this tree but not yet upstream is support for OMAP3 (including Beagle board models); the plan for the next six-month cycle includes working on getting that upstream.
I can see a lot of blueprints, but I don't understand how work is being done regarding those blueprints or when will it be done!
In common with the other Linaro working groups, the toolchain group's QEMU work is focused on upstream collaboration. So much of the planned work is delivered as a set of patches submitted and eventually committed to upstream QEMU. qemu-linaro then picks up those changes as part of its tracking of upstream.
On blueprints: If a blueprint is 'approved' then we've committed to doing the work for the six-month cycle (which Launchpad calls a 'series') it is targeted against. The 1105 cycle finishes in two weeks which is why there are currently only a few blueprints left visible on launchpad as not yet finished. Blueprints for 1111 are currently being written. (If you want to look at our current set of proto-blueprints they're on the wiki: https://wiki.linaro.org/PeterMaydell/Qemu1111 We'll be finalising the list in the next two weeks and turning them into proper launchpad blueprints.)
For tracking progress on this work, status.linaro.org is good. Unfortunately there's no easy way to show only QEMU work, but you can start at the Toolchain Group's page: http://status.linaro.org/linaro-toolchain-wg.html and then click through to the individual Technical Requirements, for example http://status.linaro.org/group/tr-toolchain-consolidate-qemu.html which in turn show progress on individual blueprints.
Oh, and what exactly is the 'qemu-linaro' tarball in the repo ?
The tarballs are monthly source releases of the qemu-linaro tree. They get some testing, and are also published as Ubuntu packages via a PPA. They're a convenient way to try a "latest bleeding edge" QEMU with extra ARM goodness.
-- Peter Maydell