On 27/08/2020 13.32, Peter Maydell wrote: > Deprecate our lm32 target support. Michael Walle (former lm32 maintainer) > suggested that we do this in 2019: > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg605024.html > because the only public user of the architecture is the many-years-dead > milkymist project. (The Linux port to lm32 was never merged upstream.) > > In commit 4b4d96c776f552e (March 2020) we marked it as 'orphan' in > the MAINTAINERS file, but didn't officially deprecate it. Mark it > deprecated now, with the intention of removing it from QEMU in > mid-2021 before the 6.1 release. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> > --- > Based-on: 20200825172719.19422-1-peter.mayd...@linaro.org > ("Deprecate Unicore32 port") to avoid the obvious textual-conflict. > > docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ > 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst > index 4c52098c707..5c7fc8a3c99 100644 > --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst > +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst > @@ -416,6 +416,14 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format:: > linux-user mode CPUs > -------------------- > > +``lm32`` CPUs (since 5.2.0) > +''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > + > +The ``lm32`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in > +a future version of QEMU. The only public user of this architecture > +was the milkymist project, which has been dead for years; there was > +never an upstream Linux port.
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> What's next? moxie? ... apart from the tree-wide clean-ups and trivial fixes, moxie did not have any major updates since 2013 when it has been added, as far as I can see ... is anybody still using it?
