Re: [PATCH] Deprecate Unicore32 port

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 06:27:19PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Deprecate our Unicore32 target support:
>  * the Linux kernel dropped support for unicore32 in commit
>    05119217a9bd199c for its 5.9 release (with rationale in the
>    cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/3/232 )
>  * there is apparently no upstream toolchain that can create unicore32
>    binaries
>  * the maintainer doesn't seem to have made any contributions to
>    QEMU since the port first landed in 2012
>  * nobody else seems to have made changes to the unicore code except
>    for generic cleanups either
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> We last considered this back in 2018, but in the end both QEMU
> and the kernel gave the port a stay of execution; the maintenance
> situation doesn't seem to have improved, and now the kernel has
> dropped support and especially given the lack of a toolchain
> I think it's time to start the deprecation process here.
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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