On Mon, Feb 28, 2022 at 11:07:19AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On Mon, 28 Feb 2022 at 09:13, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote: > > We only support the current major release, and thue previous major > > release for 2 years overlap. If we consider 11.x releases as major, > > then 11.3 went out of scope from QEMU's POV in Aug 2020, and thus > > we don't need to care about this code. > > > > More generally though, Solaris isn't even a platform we try to > > support at all is it ? > > > > We've never had any formal testing on it. Have we seen people filing > > bugs mentioning solaris in the last 5 years ? If QEMU works at all, > > I suspect it is merely by luck. > > This last came up in June 2020: > https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/CAEgYsbE7s5hD+5ARj_Xt1D0ALDPDQx7uvocd5zRF6P=ezwx...@mail.gmail.com/ > > where somebody pointed out that illumos also doesn't (didn't?) > support openpty(). So we do have at least one or two people > who have tried to compile on Solaris and been enthusiastic > enough to post to the mailing list about it.
Ah yes, and we even updated the comment to say we're keeping this for Illumos, not for Solaris commit 9df8b20d1632d108da316134d4d86a00b4028803 Author: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> Date: Mon Jun 29 14:13:24 2020 +0200 configure / util: Auto-detect the availability of openpty() Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|