Re: Obsolete QEMU host environments

From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
To: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>,
	Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>,
	QEMU Developer <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	KVM devel mailing list <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Obsolete QEMU host environments
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:46:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170315154638.2cofbirjrohz26ia@aurel32.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net>

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 probably about as out of date as the code :-)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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