From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60716) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1copDX-0004ub-5H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:34:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1copDT-0002yw-64 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:34:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:38174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1copDT-0002yj-0P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2017 06:34:39 -0400 From: Thomas Huth Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:34:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1489746872-10327-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.9] configure: Warn that the support for ia64 is going to be removed List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, peter.maydell@linaro.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, aurelien@aurel32.net Cc: rth@twiddle.net, berrange@redhat.com Access to an ia64 machine is hard to get these days, and we lack a machine for continuous integration testing, so it is very likely that we remove support for the ia64 TCG backend soon. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- configure | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/configure b/configure index 99d8bec..3ff8999 100755 --- a/configure +++ b/configure @@ -499,6 +499,11 @@ elif check_define __mips__ ; then cpu="mips" elif check_define __ia64__ ; then cpu="ia64" + echo "*** Note: The QEMU Project intends to drop support for ia64 in a near" + echo "*** future release since we do not have a machine for continuous" + echo "*** integration testing. Please get in touch via qemu-devel@nongnu.org" + echo "*** if you want to maintain support and can provide a test machine." + sleep 10 elif check_define __s390__ ; then if check_define __s390x__ ; then cpu="s390x" -- 1.8.3.1