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Re: [PATCH] Deprecate Unicore32 port
From: |
Daniel P . Berrangé |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Deprecate Unicore32 port |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Aug 2020 18:36:15 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.14.6 (2020-07-11) |
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 06:27:19PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Deprecate our Unicore32 target support:
> * the Linux kernel dropped support for unicore32 in commit
> 05119217a9bd199c for its 5.9 release (with rationale in the
> cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/3/232 )
> * there is apparently no upstream toolchain that can create unicore32
> binaries
> * the maintainer doesn't seem to have made any contributions to
> QEMU since the port first landed in 2012
> * nobody else seems to have made changes to the unicore code except
> for generic cleanups either
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> We last considered this back in 2018, but in the end both QEMU
> and the kernel gave the port a stay of execution; the maintenance
> situation doesn't seem to have improved, and now the kernel has
> dropped support and especially given the lack of a toolchain
> I think it's time to start the deprecation process here.
> ---
> docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Regards,
Daniel
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