On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 09:51:34AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote: > On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 8:41 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > IOW, if [when] we rebase Fedora to the next QEMU upstream release, users > > with older x86_64 hardware would likely be unable to run QEMU, from F41 > > onwards, unless some TBD action is taken. > > > > Thus I'm wondering whether Fedora has any policy or guidance on handling > > such a situation both in general, and more specifically for "critical path" > > packages, if that difference is relevant ? The packaging guidelines aren't > > especially explicit about this situation, unless I've missed something > > beyond the "compiler flags" and "architecture support" sections. > > > > Absent a project-wide decision to move to the newer baseline, I think > the best approach we can take would be to find some way to communicate > to the user that the software isn't usable. In the case of Qemu, does > the application report an error or crash if it's run on hardware > without the requisite baseline? I've not tested, but I would expect it to crash attempting to execute an illegal instruction With regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
