Re: [PATCH] configure, meson: deprecate 32-bit MIPS

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 27/10/24 10:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The mipsel architecture is not available in Debian Bookworm, and it will
> likely be a hard failure as soon as we drop support for the old Rust
> toolchain in Debian Bullseye.  Prepare by deprecating 32-bit little
> endian MIPS in QEMU 9.2.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>   docs/about/build-platforms.rst |  2 +-
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst      | 12 ++++++++----
>   meson.build                    |  8 ++++++++
>   3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> index ff56091078e..6102f00aec0 100644
> --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
> @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Those hosts are officially supported, with various accelerators:
>        - Accelerators
>      * - Arm
>        - kvm (64 bit only), tcg, xen
> -   * - MIPS (little endian only)
> +   * - MIPS (64 bit little endian only)
>        - kvm, tcg
>      * - PPC
>        - kvm, tcg
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 74c75666c31..32b4cd16ec3 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -170,15 +170,19 @@ property types.
>   Host Architectures
>   ------------------
>   
> -BE MIPS (since 7.2)
> -'''''''''''''''''''
> +32-bit MIPS (big endian since 7.2; little endian since 9.2)
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

Big endian MIPS since 7.2; 32-bit little endian MIPS since 9.2
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