Re: [PATCH] mips: Mark the "mipssim" machine as deprecated

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

Hi Jiaxun,

On 21/1/25 13:16, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 21/01/2025 13.07, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
>>
>>
>> 在2025年1月21日一月 上午10:36，Thomas Huth写道：
>>> We are not aware of anybody still using this machine, support for it
>>> has been withdrawn from the Linux kernel (i.e. there also won't be
>>> any future development anymore), and we are not aware of any binaries
>>> online that could be used for regression testing to avoid that the
>>> machine bitrots ... thus let's mark it as deprecated now.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>> ---
>>>   If anybody is still using this machine, please speak up now!
>>
>>
>> FYI I'm using it to run MIPS AVP (Architecture Verification Programs)
>> time by time to check TCG's compliance.

Is MIPS AVP accessible somewhere?

> 
> Ok, if you're still using it, we can certainly keep it around... but it 
> would be really good to have an old Linux kernel or something similar 
> available online somewhere that we could use for a CI test for this 
> machine, so we can make sure that it does not bitrot... do you happen to 
> know whether such a kernel is available somewhere?

Otherwise what can we use to test this machine?

> 
> Also, please consider volunteering for becoming the maintainer of the 
> machine in the MAINTAINERS file ... currently it's marked as "Orphan" 
> there which was also a strong indication that nobody really cares for 
> this machine anymore.
> 
>   Thomas
>