| Message ID | 20201012153408.9747-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org |
|---|---|
| State | New |
| Headers | show |
| Series | Deprecate TileGX port | expand |
On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 at 16:42, BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020, Peter Maydell wrote: > > Deprecate our TileGX target support: > Is that 5.2? This mail was patch of an accidental mailbomb of the list with a couple of dozen stale (already sent weeks/months back) patches that were hanging around in a directory that I ran 'git send-email *.patch' on by mistake. Please ignore it, and sorry for the confusion :-( thanks -- PMM
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index 3a255591c34..e9097e089bb 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -387,6 +387,17 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format:: json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"} +linux-user mode CPUs +-------------------- + +``tilegx`` CPUs (since 5.1.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``tilegx`` guest CPU support (which was only implemented in +linux-user mode) is deprecated and will be removed in a future version +of QEMU. Support for this CPU was removed from the upstream Linux +kernel in 2018, and has also been dropped from glibc. + Related binaries ----------------
Deprecate our TileGX target support: * we have no active maintainer for it * it has had essentially no contributions (other than tree-wide cleanups and similar) since it was first added * the Linux kernel dropped support in 2018, as has glibc Note the deprecation in the manual, but don't try to print a warning when QEMU runs -- printing unsuppressable messages is more obtrusive for linux-user mode than it would be for system-emulation mode, and it doesn't seem worth trying to invent a new suppressible-error system for linux-user just for this. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> --- We discussed dropping this target last year: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20191012071210.13632-1-philmd@redhat.com/ and before that in 2018, when Chen told us he didn't have time to work on tilegx any more: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg03955.html Given that tilegx is no longer in upstream Linux I think it makes sense to finally deprecate-and-drop our linux-user support for it. docs/system/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)