Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14

Markus Armbruster
2017-03-14T09:33:22Z

Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> writes:

> On 14 March 2017 at 09:13, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> The minimum requirements for the new language:
>> 1. Does it support the host operating systems that QEMU runs on?
>> 2. Does it support the host architectures that QEMU runs on?
>
> Speaking of this, I was thinking that we should introduce
> a rule that for any host OS/arch we support we must have
> a build machine so we can at least do a compile test.
> For instance if you believe configure we support Solaris
> and AIX, but I bet they're bit-rotting. The ia64 backend
> has to be a strong candidate for being dumped too.
> Demanding "system we can test on or we drop support"
> would let us more clearly see what we're actually running
> on and avoid unnecessarily ruling things out because they
> don't support Itanium or AIX...

Yes, please.