On Wed, 15 Mar 2017 12:25:38 +0100 Laurent Vivier <laurent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Le 15/03/2017 à 11:29, Greg Kurz a écrit : > > On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 11:56:36 +0100 > > Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On 14 March 2017 at 09:59, Juan Quintela <quintela@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> On 14 March 2017 at 09:13, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>>> On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 11:02:01AM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > >>>>> The minimum requirements for the new language: > >>>>> 1. Does it support the host operating systems that QEMU runs on? > >>>>> 2. Does it support the host architectures that QEMU runs on? > >>>> > >>>> Speaking of this, I was thinking that we should introduce > >>>> a rule that for any host OS/arch we support we must have > >>>> a build machine so we can at least do a compile test. > >>>> For instance if you believe configure we support Solaris > >>>> and AIX, but I bet they're bit-rotting. The ia64 backend > >>>> has to be a strong candidate for being dumped too. > >>>> Demanding "system we can test on or we drop support" > >>>> would let us more clearly see what we're actually running > >>>> on and avoid unnecessarily ruling things out because they > >>>> don't support Itanium or AIX... > >>> > >>> YES, YES and YES. > >>> > >>> I demand an osX build machine NOW!!!! Remote access is ok. > >> > >> OSX is actually in the set that's OK because I have a > >> machine I can test on. The ones that are problems are > >> all the BSDs, AIX, Solaris, Haiku, and architectures > > > > The most relevant links I could find about AIX hosts only mention > > QEMU 0.9.1: > > > > http://www.perzl.org/aix/index.php?n=Main.Qemu > > http://www.vivier.eu/Qemu/ > > > > I'm not aware of any effort within IBM to support newer versions > > of QEMU on an AIX host (Cc'ing Laurent in case he would be aware > > of a non-IBM initiative). > > > > At this time it was a personal initiative, made possible because I have > worked at Bull on the port of GNOME to AIX and had access to some Bull > AIX Servers. > > Now this effort has been moved to the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications: > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/ > Heh :) > Perhaps you can try to contact someone inside IBM about this toolbox? > Not even sure if it's worth the pain as I could not find any trace of QEMU in the download pages: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html https://ftp.software.ibm.com/aix/freeSoftware/aixtoolbox/RPMS/ppc/ Cheers. -- Greg > Laurent > >
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