From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38405) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coY5C-0007x2-Rm for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:16:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coY59-0006Bj-2a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:16:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:35062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coY58-0006BT-Sv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Mar 2017 12:16:54 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 16:16:49 +0000 From: "Daniel P. Berrange" Message-ID: <20170316161649.GZ15193@redhat.com> Reply-To: "Daniel P. Berrange" References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes & architecutures List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: QEMU Developers On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 03:23:45PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > OK, here's a concrete proposal for deprecating/dropping out of > date host OS and architecture support. > > We'll put this in the ChangeLog 'Future incompatible changes' > section: > ----- > * Removal of support for untested host OS and architectures: > > The QEMU Project intends to drop support in a future release for any > host OS or architecture which we do not have access to a build and test > machine for. This affects the following host OSes: > * Native CYGWIN building > * GNU/kFreeBSD > * FreeBSD > * DragonFly BSD > * NetBSD > * OpenBSD > * Solaris > * AIX > * Haiku > and the following host CPU architectures: > * ia64 > * sparc > > Specifically, if we do not have a build and test system available > to us by the time we release QEMU 2.10, we will remove support in the > release that follows 2.10. BTW, by "build & test system available", presumably you mean a system that someone has committed to actively maintaining, not merely donation of (or access to) hardware on which to install & run VMs ? Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|