>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 <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> 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 >
