On 2019-11-25 11:41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > The r4k machine was introduced in 2005 (6af0bf9c7) and its last > logical change was in 2005 (9542611a6). After we can count 164 > maintenance commits (QEMU API changes) with the exception of > 1 fix in 2015 (memory leak, commit 3ad9fd5a). > > This machine was introduced as a proof of concept to run a MIPS > CPU. 2 years later, the Malta machine was add (commit 5856de80) > modeling a real platform. > > Note also this machine has no specification except 5 lines in > the header of this file: > > * emulates a simple machine with ISA-like bus. > * ISA IO space mapped to the 0x14000000 (PHYS) and > * ISA memory at the 0x10000000 (PHYS, 16Mb in size). > * All peripherial devices are attached to this "bus" with > * the standard PC ISA addresses. > > It is time to deprecate this obsolete machine. Users are > recommended to use the Malta board, which hardware is well > documented. > > Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> > --- > qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 +++++ > hw/mips/mips_r4k.c | 1 + > MAINTAINERS | 2 +- > 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
The Linux kernel support for this machine has been dropped more than 10 years ago in this commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=302922e5f6901eb6f29c58539631f71b3d9746b8 I therefore think it's time to also drop support for it on the QEMU side. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
