Re: [Qemu-devel] Proposal for deprecating unsupported host OSes & architecutures

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2017 at 03:23:45PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> OK, here's a concrete proposal for deprecating/dropping out of
> date host OS and architecture support.
> 
> We'll put this in the ChangeLog 'Future incompatible changes'
> section:
> -----
> * Removal of support for untested host OS and architectures:
> 
> The QEMU Project intends to drop support in a future release for any
> host OS or architecture which we do not have access to a build and test
> machine for. This affects the following host OSes:
>  * Native CYGWIN building
>  * GNU/kFreeBSD
>  * FreeBSD
>  * DragonFly BSD
>  * NetBSD
>  * OpenBSD
>  * Solaris
>  * AIX
>  * Haiku
> and the following host CPU architectures:
>  * ia64
>  * sparc
> 
> Specifically, if we do not have a build and test system available
> to us by the time we release QEMU 2.10, we will remove support in the
> release that follows 2.10.

BTW, by "build & test system available", presumably you mean a system
that someone has committed to actively maintaining, not merely donation
of (or access to) hardware on which to install & run VMs ?

Regards,
Daniel
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