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Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments
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Daniel P. Berrange |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Mar 2017 09:40:55 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.7.1 (2016-10-04) |
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 07:09:55AM +1000, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 03/15/2017 03:07 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On 14 March 2017 at 17:54, Thomas Huth <address@hidden> 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 probably about as out of date as the code :-)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.
AFAIK, HP are the only major vendor who still sell new ia64 machines and
that's high end stuff costing many $$$$$. Even they are pushing people to
x86_64 unless they need ia64 for legacy reasons. Otherwise ebay and other
secondhand marketplaces are the only way to get hold of ia64.
Regards,
Daniel
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- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Juan Quintela, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Peter Maydell, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Christian Borntraeger, 2017/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Greg Kurz, 2017/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Laurent Vivier, 2017/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Daniel P. Berrange, 2017/03/14
- [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments (was: Re: KVM call for 2017-03-14), Thomas Huth, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments (was: Re: KVM call for 2017-03-14), Peter Maydell, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments, Richard Henderson, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments,
Daniel P. Berrange <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments, Thomas Huth, 2017/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] Obsolete QEMU host environments, Aurelien Jarno, 2017/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Peter Maydell, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Dr. David Alan Gilbert, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Gerd Hoffmann, 2017/03/15
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Markus Armbruster, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Juan Quintela, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Peter Maydell, 2017/03/14
- Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call for 2017-03-14, Paolo Bonzini, 2017/03/14