From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilb...@redhat.com> There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people do new work on that.
Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilb...@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 47a594a3b6..3c73d22729 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -454,3 +454,20 @@ nanoMIPS ISA The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain. As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated. + +Tools +----- + +virtiofsd +''''''''' + +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``; +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree. +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that +are already in development for the moment, but will eventually +be deleted from this tree. +New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems +should consider moving to it. The command line and feature set +is very close and moving should be simple. -- 2.34.1
