From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com,
Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rikalo@syrmia.com>,
Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@flygoat.com>,
Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH-for-5.2] hw/mips: Remove the 'r4k' machine
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2020 07:55:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e96d9497-cb8e-a86e-8e90-826a29f6710b@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201102102631.2058219-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
On 02/11/2020 11.26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> We deprecated the support for the 'r4k' machine for the 5.0 release
> (commit d32dc61421), which means that our deprecation policy allows
> us to drop it in release 5.2. Remove the code.
>
> To repeat the rationale from the deprecation note:
> - this virtual machine has no specification
> - the Linux kernel dropped support for it 10 years ago
>
> Users are recommended to use the Malta board instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
> docs/system/deprecated.rst | 2 +-
> .../devices/mips-softmmu-common.mak | 1 -
> hw/mips/r4k.c | 318 ------------------
> MAINTAINERS | 6 -
> hw/mips/Kconfig | 13 -
> hw/mips/meson.build | 1 -
> 6 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 340 deletions(-)
> delete mode 100644 hw/mips/r4k.c
>
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 0ebce37a191..0e83ea2ca0a 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ The 'scsi-disk' device is deprecated. Users should use 'scsi-hd' or
> System emulator machines
> ------------------------
>
> -mips ``r4k`` platform (since 5.0)
> +mips ``r4k`` platform (removed in 5.2)
> '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
You should move the paragraph to the "Recently removed features" section
instead.
Thomas
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-03 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-02 10:26 [PATCH-for-5.2] hw/mips: Remove the 'r4k' machine Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-02 16:00 ` Richard Henderson
2020-11-02 18:49 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-11-03 6:55 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
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