On Mon, 2017-03-27 at 17:32 +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 26 March 2017 at 10:16, Knut Omang <knut.om...@oracle.com> wrote: > > On Sat, 2017-03-25 at 21:15 +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 25 March 2017 at 20:49, Knut Omang <knut.om...@oracle.com> wrote: > >> > > >> > Can we please keep the Sparc support in for a while still? > >> > >> Yes, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz and the Debian Project have > >> kindly provided me with access to a Sparc box. I'm planning > >> to send a patch that puts sparc into the 'supported' > >> category before 2.9 release. > > > > good to hear! > > It occurred to me that it might be helpful to point out that > support of Solaris as a host OS is a separate thing and is > still in the 'unsupported' category.
Yes, that's my understanding too, but thanks for highlighting it. > (It's also quite high > on the list of stuff to drop because I suspect it's broken > and it's one of the things making a mess of our configure code.) I agree, and from what I have been able to figure out, it seems there are no imminent problems with removing it, Thanks, Knut > > thanks > -- PMM
