Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] configure: Warn about deprecated hosts

[Peter Maydell]

On 17 March 2017 at 11:08, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> This commit flags up as deprecated the CPU architectures:
>  * ia64
>  * sparc
>  * anything which we don't have a TCG port for
>    (and which was presumably using TCI)
> and the OSes:
>  * Cygwin
>  * GNU/kFreeBSD
>  * FreeBSD
>  * DragonFly BSD
>  * NetBSD
>  * OpenBSD
>  * Solaris
>  * AIX
>  * Haiku

> This list is definitely too all-encompassing, and we should
> move at least some of the BSDs into "not-deprecated".
> I'm posting the patch for the moment for code review on the
> logic and as a placeholder.
> --

Based on my experiences this afternoon trying to get VMs set
up and build QEMU in them plus feedback in this thread, I'm
going to suggest that:
 * we move FreeBSD to the "supported" list (since we have Sean
   around and I got a VM to build stuff without too much pain;
   bsd-user is currently not compiling though)
 * we leave all the others "unsupported"

In particular, I couldn't get a NetBSD installer to even
boot on KVM, so I have no test setup there. I did get OpenBSD
running but it has several compilation failure problems
(use of non-existent EPROTO, the si.si_band" use in oslib-posix.c
doesn't compile, etc) and the dev environment is totally
unusable in any case.

thanks
-- PMM