Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes & architecutures

[Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com>]

On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 21:15 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 March 2017 at 20:49, Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Can we please keep the Sparc support in for a while still?
> 
> Yes, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz and the Debian Project have
> kindly provided me with access to a Sparc box. I'm planning
> to send a patch that puts sparc into the 'supported'
> category before 2.9 release.

good to hear!

> I would note that so far I've found a couple of TCG
> bugs of the "this just doesn't work at all" level, so
> it doesn't look like anybody using sparc has been
> doing any testing against git master...

No, I tried a while ago myself without much success so there's awareness
about this sad state. Hopefully we can get some momentum on it soon.

> > 
> > When it comes to build platforms, a legitimate need to be able to keep
> > anything
> > running, I don't have any authority to promise away hardware or other forms
> > of
> > Sparc access, but I have been told that that part can be worked out in some
> > way
> > if we get enough support for this internally.
> 
> I'd recommend trying to get a machine into the gcc compile
> farm (assuming they'd be willing to take it) -- that way
> it's accessible to developers for a range of open
> source projects.

I'll bring that suggestion forward,

Thanks,
Knut

> 
> thanks
> -- PMM