Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:03 PM Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Alex Bennée <alex.ben...@linaro.org> writes:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > I've missed the boat for today's rc1 but I'd like to get this merged
>> > before rc2. The new docker.py change is technically new functionality
>> > but I'm counting it as a usability bug fix as it replaces a random
>> > back trace failure with a preemptive failure and message mentioning
>> > binfmt_misc configuration. This would have saved Richard a lot of head
>> > scratching as he tried to setup a powerpc-user setup to test his
>> > setcontext fix (he had a custom binfmt_misc pointing to his src tree).
>> >
>> > Finally we also drop the runcom test. It was cute that it got
>> > resurrected but it is ultimately a pointless test for something I'm
>> > sure no one actually uses.
>> >
>> > There will be a follow-up RFC series after this that cleans-up some of
>> > the rough edges when your host is not an x86_64 box but that series
>> > won't be targeting the 3.0 release.
>> >
>> > : The following patches need review
>> > : patch docker/disable debian powerpc user cross.patch
>> > : patch docker/drop QEMU_TARGET check fallback in EXECUTABLE.patch
>> > : patch docker/Update debootstrap script after Debian migrat.patch
>> > : patch docker/ignore distro versioning of debootstrap.patch
>> > : patch docker/perform basic binfmt_misc validation in docke.patch
>> > : patch tests/tcg remove runcom test.patch
>>
>> Ping?
>
> I had questions about patch 13 and 17. Otherwise looks good.
> ​ Maybe you can drop them for now (including patch 9) and send the PULL for
> the rest.​

I can drop/replace 13 - but 17 was there for a better reporting of a
failure case Peter found. We can certainly expand it and be smarter in
future iterations.

> I don't know if we can catch up -rc2 but I guess the testing fixes are
> fairly safe to sneak in. :)
>
> (My development machine is affected by
> an
>  office power outage, and I was
> ​ also​
>  busy with upgrading patchew.org. Sorry for the
> ​ ​
> late reply
> !)
>
> Fam


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