On 10/5/21 10:49, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:44:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>> I will look at it, please allow me a few weeks though. > > Once something is deprecated, it remains in QEMU for a minimum of two > release cycles, before being deleted. At any time in that deprecation > period it can be returned to supported status, if someone provides a > good enough justification to keep it. My understanding is once being in deprecated state for 2 releases, it can be removed, but it doesn't have to be removed (assuming it is functional and nobody complains). Am I incorrect? I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep it functional. However, since no toolchain reached mainstream GCC/LLVM it is not easy to maintain. By keeping it in that state we give some time to other communities to have their toolchain upstreamed / merged. > IOW, we can deprecate this now, and you still have plenty of time to > investigate more. Yes, almost 8 months :)
