From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Aurelien Jarno Subject: Re: Obsolete QEMU host environments Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:46:38 +0100 Message-ID: <20170315154638.2cofbirjrohz26ia@aurel32.net> References: <87tw6y8bs8.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314081312.GB13140@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <87wpbstesf.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314160113.GM2445@work-vm> <20170314162020.GT2652@redhat.com> <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Peter Maydell , Thomas Huth , "Daniel P. Berrange" , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Juan Quintela , QEMU Developer , KVM devel mailing list , Stefan Hajnoczi To: Richard Henderson Return-path: Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([163.172.24.10]:34650 "EHLO hall.aurel32.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751628AbdCOQ3Y (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:29:24 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 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 probably about as out of date as the code :-) 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 -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coB8b-00054U-Pv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:47:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coB8a-0007xh-C2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:46:57 -0400 Received: from hall.aurel32.net ([2001:bc8:30d7:100::1]:47486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1coB8a-0007lj-6c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Mar 2017 11:46:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 16:46:38 +0100 From: Aurelien Jarno Message-ID: <20170315154638.2cofbirjrohz26ia@aurel32.net> References: <87tw6y8bs8.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314081312.GB13140@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <87wpbstesf.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314160113.GM2445@work-vm> <20170314162020.GT2652@redhat.com> <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Richard Henderson Cc: Peter Maydell , Thomas Huth , "Daniel P. Berrange" , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Juan Quintela , QEMU Developer , KVM devel mailing list , Stefan Hajnoczi 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 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 -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net