From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: "Chen Gang" <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn>,
"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Deprecate TileGX port
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2020 16:51:57 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200619155157.GX700896@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200619154831.26319-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Deprecate our TileGX target support:
> * we have no active maintainer for it
> * it has had essentially no contributions (other than tree-wide cleanups
> and similar) since it was first added
> * the Linux kernel dropped support in 2018, as has glibc
>
> Note the deprecation in the manual, but don't try to print a warning
> when QEMU runs -- printing unsuppressable messages is more obtrusive
> for linux-user mode than it would be for system-emulation mode, and
> it doesn't seem worth trying to invent a new suppressible-error
> system for linux-user just for this.
Potentially we could turn it off by default in configure, so it
requires an explicit --target-list to request it, but either way,
I don't mind.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> We discussed dropping this target last year:
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/20191012071210.13632-1-philmd@redhat.com/
> and before that in 2018, when Chen told us he didn't have time
> to work on tilegx any more:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg03955.html
> Given that tilegx is no longer in upstream Linux I think it makes sense
> to finally deprecate-and-drop our linux-user support for it.
>
> docs/system/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Regards,
Daniel
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-19 15:48 [PATCH] Deprecate TileGX port Peter Maydell
2020-06-19 15:51 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2020-06-19 16:05 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-06-19 15:56 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-06-19 16:24 ` no-reply
2020-06-19 19:02 ` Thomas Huth
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2020-10-12 15:33 [PATCH 00/10] target/arm: Various v8.1M minor features Peter Maydell
2020-10-12 15:33 ` [PATCH] Deprecate TileGX port Peter Maydell
2020-10-12 15:42 ` BALATON Zoltan via
2020-10-12 15:44 ` Peter Maydell
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