On 17 March 2017 at 10:34, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > Access to an ia64 machine is hard to get these days, and we lack a > machine for continuous integration testing, so it is very likely > that we remove support for the ia64 TCG backend soon. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> > --- > configure | 5 +++++ > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/configure b/configure > index 99d8bec..3ff8999 100755 > --- a/configure > +++ b/configure > @@ -499,6 +499,11 @@ elif check_define __mips__ ; then > cpu="mips" > elif check_define __ia64__ ; then > cpu="ia64" > + echo "*** Note: The QEMU Project intends to drop support for ia64 in a > near" > + echo "*** future release since we do not have a machine for continuous" > + echo "*** integration testing. Please get in touch via > qemu-devel@nongnu.org" > + echo "*** if you want to maintain support and can provide a test machine." > + sleep 10 > elif check_define __s390__ ; then > if check_define __s390x__ ; then > cpu="s390x" > -- > 1.8.3.1
I have a more general patch for this that supports marking several host CPUs and OSes as deprecated. I just haven't posted it yet because I'm not sure which ones we want to mark as deprecated. thanks -- PMM
