[PATCH 1/4] tools: docker: Bump up QEMU version to 6.1.0

[Bin Meng]

On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 10:01 AM Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 08:05:17AM +0800, Bin Meng wrote:
>
> > At present U-Boot CI testing is still using QEMU 4.2.0 which is
> > pretty old. Let's bump up to QEMU 6.1.0.
> >
> > ninja-build is added as the prerequisite required by QEMU 6.1.0.
> >
> > Note there is a bug in QEMU 6.1.0 Xilinx Zynq UART emulation codes.
> > A quick fix [1] was posted on QEMU mailing list but it it too late
> > for 6.1.0 release. Hence my custom repo is used that contains this
> > fix on top of the v6.1.0 release tag at the time being. We should
> > switch to QEMU official repo once the fix is merged in next release.
> >
> > [1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/20210823020813.25192-2-bmeng.cn@gmail.com/
>
> Can we cherry-pick this from upstream?  How long is it likely to take
> before say 6.1.1 is out?

There is probably no 6.1.1 per QEMU release cadence. The fix has not
been applied yet, so we cannot cherry pick it up now.

If using a custom repo is a problem, how about "wget <patch> from
patchwork" and "git am" on top of the official repo?

Regards,
Bin