Re: Obsolete QEMU host environments

Richard Henderson
2017-03-14T21:10:15Z

On 03/15/2017 03:07 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 March 2017 at 17:54, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Our ia64 host backend in QEMU (tcg/ia64) is still marked as maintained
>> ... so it's maybe not as dead as you think? Or should we rather get rid
>> of that soon, too?
>
> I don't actually mind whether we keep tcg/ia64 or drop it.
> But if we keep it then we must have a machine we can test
> it on -- that means one I have access to (and which we
> can otherwise use for central testing), not just one the
> maintainer might happen to have.
>
> Also, that MAINTAINERS entry was added in 2011, so it's
> probably about as out of date as the code :-)

Red Hat's last ia64 machine died a few years ago, so I haven't
been able to test it for quite some time.

I don't know if Aurelien can still test on ia64 or not.

r~