Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecate/remove AIX host support? Solaris?

[Karel Gardas]

>From time to time I'm using Qemu on my Solaris 11/amd64 workstation.
But as in case of AIX, Solaris build was neither done easily in IIRC I
also tweaked configure in a place or two. So if you keep it, good, if
not, no end of world as I'm planning to migrate to some other OS
anyway in the future because I feel quality of this OS is going
down-hill since 11.0 or so -- at least for me and my application.

On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 5:57 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi; I was wondering whether we should remove the probably-broken
> and certainly-untested support for some of the more obscure host
> OSes we have ifdefs lurking around for.
>
> AIX host support seems like an easy one to me. As far as I
> can tell it's been impossible to build QEMU since 2013 without
> editing configure (in commit e3608d66cea31 rth made "cpu=ppc64"
> result in adding a "-m64" option to CFLAGS, and AIX gcc doesn't
> understand -m64). Since nobody has complained I think we can
> assume that nobody's actually using this host. I have tentatively
> added the note
> "Support for building on AIX is deprecated. We think it has been
>  broken for some time and plan to remove it entirely in 2.8."
> to the 2.7 ChangeLog. (If people disagree or somebody pops up to
> volunteer to test and maintain AIX host support I'll delete the
> changelog text, obviously.)
>
> Possibly more controversially, Solaris host support? Is anybody
> using and testing this?
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>