libvirt supports way too many architectures, including a bunch which are no longer relevant these days. As a result, developers spend a lot of their time focusing on bugs and features that only affect legacy architectures such as x86 rather than on improving support for reasonable, modern architectures such as ppc64 and aarch64. This series starts deprecating obsolete architectures so we can drop support for them and retarget our efforts down the line. The initial list of deprecated architectures is fairly conservative, only including those which are clearly obsolete such as x86; on the other hand, dropping just those would already allow us to get rid of a lot of complex and probably fairly buggy code, so I think it's a good first step. I'd suggest dropping the support for architectures we're deprecating with this series completely with version 4.0.0, due on January of next year, but I could be persuaded to proceed earlier. Andrea Bolognani (5): configure: Deprecate obsolete architectures daemon: Log warning when running on a deprecated architecture virsh: Emit warning when running on a deprecated architecture qemu: Taint guests emulating a deprecated architecture news: Document architecture deprecation configure.ac | 15 +++++++++++++++ daemon/libvirtd.c | 5 +++++ docs/news.xml | 13 +++++++++++++ src/conf/domain_conf.c | 3 ++- src/conf/domain_conf.h | 1 + src/qemu/qemu_domain.c | 3 +++ src/util/virarch.h | 3 +++ tools/virsh.c | 6 ++++++ 8 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 2.7.4 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
