Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> writes: [...]
> The problem is really that we don't have unlimited resources in the > QEMU project. Currently we're heavily struggling with the load in the > CI, but also pure man power is always very scarce. So at one point in > time, you have to decide to say good bye to some old and hardly used > features - at least to stop testing and actively supporting it. If you > want to continue testing and fixing bugs for such host systems, that's > fine, of course, but don't expect the QEMU developers to do that job > in the future. This. We're out of free lunch. We're glad you enjoyed it while it lasted. If you want more lunch, you need to join the kitchen. Here are a few things we need to keep a host or target supported: * Competent maintainer(s) to relieve the ones who have maintained this for you so far * CI runners to conserve scarce CI minutes (or the money to buy more) * Trustworthy system administrator(s) to set them up and keep them running.