On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 07:09:55AM +1000, Richard Henderson wrote: > On 03/15/2017 03:07 AM, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On 14 March 2017 at 17:54, Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Our ia64 host backend in QEMU (tcg/ia64) is still marked as maintained > > > ... so it's maybe not as dead as you think? Or should we rather get rid > > > of that soon, too? > > > > I don't actually mind whether we keep tcg/ia64 or drop it. > > But if we keep it then we must have a machine we can test > > it on -- that means one I have access to (and which we > > can otherwise use for central testing), not just one the > > maintainer might happen to have. > > > > Also, that MAINTAINERS entry was added in 2011, so it's > > probably about as out of date as the code :-) > > Red Hat's last ia64 machine died a few years ago, so I haven't > been able to test it for quite some time. AFAIK, HP are the only major vendor who still sell new ia64 machines and that's high end stuff costing many $$$$$. Even they are pushing people to x86_64 unless they need ia64 for legacy reasons. Otherwise ebay and other secondhand marketplaces are the only way to get hold of ia64. 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/ :|
