[PATCH] docs/system/deprecated: Mark the 'moxie' CPU as deprecated

[PATCH] docs/system/deprecated: Mark the 'moxie' CPU as deprecated

[Thomas Huth]

It is currently unclear whether anybody is still using the 'moxie' CPU,
and there are no images for testing available this CPU, so the code has
likely bit-rotten in the course of time. When I asked the maintainer
for information, I did not get a reply within four weeks yet (see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg07201.html).
The last Signed-off-by line from Anthony in our repo is from 2013,
so it seems like this code is rather unmaintained. Time to put it onto
the deprecation list to see whether somebody is still interested in this
code or whether we could remove it in a couple of releases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
 docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index e3dcf1f149..ac92a7afcf 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -322,6 +322,14 @@ for VNC should be performed using the pluggable QAuthZ objects.
 System emulator CPUS
 --------------------
 
+``moxie`` CPU (since 5.2.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``moxie`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in
+a future version of QEMU. It's unclear whether anybody is still using
+CPU emulation in QEMU, and there are no test images available to make
+sure that the code is still working.
+
 ``compat`` property of server class POWER CPUs (since 5.0)
 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
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2.18.2

Re: [PATCH] docs/system/deprecated: Mark the 'moxie' CPU as deprecated

[Richard Henderson]

On 9/23/20 10:18 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> It is currently unclear whether anybody is still using the 'moxie' CPU,
> and there are no images for testing available this CPU, so the code has
> likely bit-rotten in the course of time. When I asked the maintainer
> for information, I did not get a reply within four weeks yet (see
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-08/msg07201.html).
> The last Signed-off-by line from Anthony in our repo is from 2013,
> so it seems like this code is rather unmaintained. Time to put it onto
> the deprecation list to see whether somebody is still interested in this
> code or whether we could remove it in a couple of releases.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>

r~