Re: Obsolete QEMU host environments

Aurelien Jarno
2017-03-15T16:29:24Z

On 2017-03-15 07:09, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 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 probably about as out of date as the code :-)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.

I have the same issue, the last QEMU test I have been able to do on an
ia64 machine dates from last summer, so something like 9 months ago. I
don't think anybody has a lot of interest in ia64 anymore, so I guess
it's time to just remove the ia64 host backend.

Aurelien

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