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Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 17:17:30 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] State of sparc64-softmmu
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To: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland@canonical.com>

Paul Brook wrote:
>> But this leads me to wonder, is this just an oversite or is there
>> something wrong with sparc64-softmmu that we don't recommend building it
>> by default?
>>     
>
> My understanding it that there are still several large chunks remaining to be 
> implemented, and it can not boot any real guest operating systems.
>   

If it's not building by default, it's going to bitrot (it already has).

So I'd suggest either making it build by default or removing it from the 
tree and moving it into a separate tree.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori