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 -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|
