From: Bastian Koppelmann <kbastian@mail.uni-paderborn.de>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: Chen Gang <chengang@emindsoft.com.cn>,
Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>,
Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>,
Chen Gang <xili_gchen_5257@hotmail.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:41:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c7b075f5-8084-99c0-02e0-3da555bea4df@mail.uni-paderborn.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0304e590-ab51-649b-7cee-bb7c5be6f5e4@redhat.com>
On 02/28/2018 07:11 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 27.02.2018 12:51, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> I propose that we deprecate and plan to remove the unicore32 code:
> [...]
[...]
>
> Sounds reasonable to me, but let's wait a week or two for feedback from
> Guan Xuetao.
Agreed.
>
>> 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?
I always saw it as a big plus that QEMU supports nearly any
architecture, no matter how obscure it is. So I'm a bit more hesitant on
dropping architectures quickly.
Cheers,
Bastian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-28 12:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-27 11:51 [Qemu-devel] Proposal: deprecate and remove QEMU's unicore32 target code Peter Maydell
2018-02-27 11:56 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-28 6:11 ` [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ? (was: Proposal: deprecate and remove QEMU's unicore32 target code) Thomas Huth
2018-02-28 7:17 ` [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ? Paolo Bonzini
2018-02-28 10:38 ` Thomas Huth
2018-02-28 12:41 ` Bastian Koppelmann [this message]
2018-03-09 15:13 ` Alex Bennée
2018-03-13 17:18 ` Bastian Koppelmann
2018-03-13 17:39 ` Peter Maydell
2018-03-14 9:09 ` Xuetao Guan
2018-03-14 10:11 ` Laurent Vivier
2018-03-14 12:01 ` Xuetao Guan
2018-03-17 8:06 ` Waldemar Brodkorb
2018-03-13 16:37 ` Chen Gang
2018-03-09 14:08 ` [Qemu-devel] Proposal: deprecate and remove QEMU's unicore32 target code Xuetao Guan
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