On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 04:01:14PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > * Juan Quintela (quint...@redhat.com) wrote: > > Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > > > On 14 March 2017 at 09:13, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> 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. > > > > Now more seriously, I can (relatively easy) compile test my pull > > requests with: > > - linux x86 (latest fedora, but I can get an older one if needed) > > - linux x86_64 (latest fedor,, but the same) > > - mingw64 32bit (latest fedora, but here I have the problem that Peter > > uses a different crosscompiler than me) > > - mingw64 32bit (the same) > > > > But for the rest, I need to wait that somebody told me that it breaks > > the build. Normally it is things like size_t is 32bit instead of 64bit > > or some stupid things like that, that are trivial to fix if I can > > compile there before doing the pull submission. > > I also do a FreeBSD VM, and grab an aarch64 and/or PPC bigendian host > to test on. > > (I could grab an ia64 host, but I don't think I could find anything > to install on it that would be new enough for the rest of our build > requirements).
Indeed, ia64 is a fully dead as a host architecture at this point, only interesting as a historical curiosity. Paolo already killed ia64 KVM host support in Linux git back in 2014. 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/ :|
