Re: [PATCH 1/2] target/sh4: Deprecate the shix machine

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

Hi Samuel,

On 8/1/24 18:15, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> The shix machine has been designed and used at Télécom Paris from 2003
> to 2010. It had been added to QEMU in 2005 and has not been maintained
> since. Since nobody is using the physical board anymore nor interested
> in maintaining the QEMU port, it is time to deprecate it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
> ---
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst | 5 +++++
>   hw/sh4/shix.c             | 1 +
>   2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 2e15040246..e6a12c9077 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ Nios II ``10m50-ghrd`` and ``nios2-generic-nommu`` machines (since 8.2)
>   
>   The Nios II architecture is orphan.
>   
> +``shix`` (since 9.0)
> +''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The machine is no longer in existence and has been long unmaintained
> +in QEMU.
>   
>   Backend options
>   ---------------
> diff --git a/hw/sh4/shix.c b/hw/sh4/shix.c
> index aa812512f0..58530b8ede 100644
> --- a/hw/sh4/shix.c
> +++ b/hw/sh4/shix.c
> @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static void shix_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
>       mc->init = shix_init;
>       mc->is_default = true;
>       mc->default_cpu_type = TYPE_SH7750R_CPU;
> +    mc->deprecation_reason = "old and unmaintained - use a newer machine instead";

"use a newer machine instead" bugs me, what would that be?

Could we stick to "old and unmaintained"?

>   }
>   
>   DEFINE_MACHINE("shix", shix_machine_init)