On 22/09/2017 14:05, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 20 September 2017 at 19:50, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com> wrote: >> To introduce myself: I'm a member of the illumos community (the successor >> to OpenSolaris, to those unfamiliar with us), and I maintain my own illumos >> distribution. >> >> Having seen the scary 'SUPPORT FOR THIS HOST OS WILL GO AWAY' >> message, I'm reaching out to see what needs to be done so that support for >> SunOS (not just illumos, I include Oracle's Solaris in the same family) >> needs to be kept and, where possible, enhanced. >> >> I'm willing to act as a contact in this effort, and can work with others in >> the illumos community to see if there are other resources we can bring to >> bear. > > Hi; thanks for getting in touch with us. Kamil Rytarowski (who I've > cc'd) is also interested in keeping Solaris-variant support working. > > Essentially what we need as upstream is: > * access to a machine which we can use for our continuous > integration build testing, so we don't break compile > support for the platform. This is ideally a machine that > somebody else admins and we just use (because we don't > want to become solaris/illumos admins ;-)), but failing > that, instructions on how to get a VM running under > KVM on Linux would also be OK (that's how we've ended > up handling the BSDs)
I would even reverse the order since now we're handling the BSDs using the VM test infrastructure. Let's say having both would be best. Paolo > * somebody to look at the places where 'make && make check' > currently fails and submit upstream patches for them. Kamil > has been doing a great job here but would probably > appreciate extra help :-) > * somebody who's willing to be listed in our MAINTAINERS file > as maintaining the port, so we can ask them questions if/when > any platform-specific issues come up in future > > Overall we're happy to continue to support hosts that people > are still using -- we just want to avoid blindly maintaining > code for platforms we can't test and where we don't have > any idea if anybody's even using it (for instance we just > dropped the support for AIX and for Itanium CPUs...) > > thanks > -- PMM >
