On 2017-03-15 07:09, 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 probably about as out of date as the code :-) 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. > > I don't know if Aurelien can still test on ia64 or not. I have the same issue, the last QEMU test I have been able to do on an ia64 machine dates from last summer, so something like 9 months ago. I don't think anybody has a lot of interest in ia64 anymore, so I guess it's time to just remove the ia64 host backend. Aurelien -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.aurel32.net
