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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes &
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To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
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On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 17:32 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 26 March 2017 at 10:16, Knut Omang <knut.omang@oracle.com> wrote:
> > 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!
>=20
> It occurred to me that it might be helpful to point out that
> support of Solaris as a host OS is a separate thing and is
> still in the 'unsupported' category.=20

Yes, that's my understanding too, but thanks for highlighting it.

> (It's also quite high
> on the list of stuff to drop because I suspect it's broken
> and it's one of the things making a mess of our configure code.)

I agree, and from what I have been able to figure out,=C2=A0
it seems there are no imminent problems with removing it,

Thanks,
Knut

>=20
> thanks
> -- PMM