From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Henderson Subject: Re: Obsolete QEMU host environments Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:09:55 +1000 Message-ID: <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net> References: <87tw6y8bs8.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314081312.GB13140@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <87wpbstesf.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314160113.GM2445@work-vm> <20170314162020.GT2652@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Juan Quintela , QEMU Developer , KVM devel mailing list , Stefan Hajnoczi , Aurelien Jarno To: Peter Maydell , Thomas Huth Return-path: Received: from mail-pg0-f66.google.com ([74.125.83.66]:34860 "EHLO mail-pg0-f66.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751336AbdCNVKP (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:10:15 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-f66.google.com with SMTP id g2so21580901pge.2 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:10:14 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 probably about as out of date as the code :-) Red Hat's last ia64 machine died a few years ago, so I haven't been able to test it for quite some time.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. r~ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50213) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnthy-0008QZ-CA for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:10:19 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnthv-0005sd-6x for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:10:18 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-x242.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400e:c05::242]:33917) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1cnthv-0005rC-1L for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 17:10:15 -0400 Received: by mail-pg0-x242.google.com with SMTP id b5so26094293pgg.1 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2017 14:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Richard Henderson References: <87tw6y8bs8.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314081312.GB13140@stefanha-x1.localdomain> <87wpbstesf.fsf@secure.mitica> <20170314160113.GM2445@work-vm> <20170314162020.GT2652@redhat.com> From: Richard Henderson Message-ID: <5a03eebc-669c-c67b-d857-f4d1bbbeff36@twiddle.net> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2017 07:09:55 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell , Thomas Huth Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" , "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" , Juan Quintela , QEMU Developer , KVM devel mailing list , Stefan Hajnoczi , Aurelien Jarno 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. r~