On 4/8/2022 12:47 PM, Thomas Huth wrote:
QEMU 7.1 won't support Ubuntu 18.04 anymore, so the last big important
distro that did not have a pre-packaged libslirp has been dismissed.
All other major distros seem to have a libslirp package in their
distribution already - according to repology.org:
Fedora 34: 4.4.0
CentOS 8 (RHEL-8): 4.4.0
Debian Buster: 4.3.1 (in buster-backports)
OpenSUSE Leap 15.3: 4.3.1
Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 4.1.0
FreeBSD Ports: 4.6.1
NetBSD pkgsrc: 4.3.1
Homebrew: 4.6.1
MSYS2 mingw: 4.6.1
The only one that still seems to be missing a libslirp package is
OpenBSD - but I assume that they can add it to their ports system
quickly if required.
So there is no real urgent need for keeping the slirp submodule in
the QEMU tree anymore. Thus let's drop the slirp submodule now and
rely on the libslirp packages from the distributions instead.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
I wish I had seen this earlier as our 7.1 release was just tagged.
I have whipped up a port of 4.6.1 for OpenBSD as it was pretty simple. I
will
see about submitting it in a number of days when the tree opens.
