Deprecation of the LM32 target

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello!

I was just browsing through the QEMU Christmas Calendar [1] and noticed
the announcement for the deprecation of the LM32 target.

I'm not sure what the motivation of the deprecation is, but isn't one of
the big selling points of QEMU to support deprecated targets?

If QEMU eventually ends up supporting commercially available targets only
and kicking out everything that is obsolete, I'm not sure what the point
of QEMU would be in the first place as products like VMWare and VirtualBox
already provide virtualization functionality.

Please don't deprecate targets just because they're old.

Thanks,
Adrian

> [1] https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2020/

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