Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ?

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 28/02/2018 07:11, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 27.02.2018 12:51, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I propose that we deprecate and plan to remove the unicore32 code:
> [...]
>> Essentially, it seems to be a largely-inactive university R&D project,
>> it's costing us in maintenance effort every time we have to touch it,
>> and I don't think it has any real users.
>>
>> Does anybody disagree?
>>
>> If we go ahead with deprecating then we should:
>>  * add a note to Changelog that we're deprecating the target
>>  * ditto qemu-doc.texi's deprecation section
>>  * patch hw/unicore32/puv3.c to warn on startup that it's deprecated
>>  * remove it entirely for the 2.14 release
>>
>> We could also remove linux-user/unicore32 immediately, since
>> the linux-user target has been disabled for some time.
> 
> Sounds reasonable to me, but let's wait a week or two for feedback from
> Guan Xuetao.

Sounds good---thought I would consider dropping unicore32 now with no
formal deprecation period...

>> Possibly there are other target architectures we could reasonably
>> deprecate-and-remove (though none of the other ones Linux is dropping
>> in this round are ones we support)...
> 
> I'd vote for marking tilegx as deprecated, too, since we even do not
> have an active maintainer for that CPU core (at least I did not spot one
> in our MAINTAINERS file). Opinions?

Tilegx has been last modified in 2015, so it's a little more alive than
unicore32.

Another one is moxie.  Anthony?

Thanks,

Paolo