Re: [PATCH] mips: Mark the "mipssim" machine as deprecated

[Jiaxun Yang]

在2025年1月21日一月 上午10:36，Thomas Huth写道：
> We are not aware of anybody still using this machine, support for it
> has been withdrawn from the Linux kernel (i.e. there also won't be
> any future development anymore), and we are not aware of any binaries
> online that could be used for regression testing to avoid that the
> machine bitrots ... thus let's mark it as deprecated now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
>  If anybody is still using this machine, please speak up now!


FYI I'm using it to run MIPS AVP (Architecture Verification Programs)
time by time to check TCG's compliance.

It is a proprietary software so unfortunately no binary available
to public :-(

AVP has two supported platforms, the first is plain old MIPSSIM
here, the second is OVPSim MIPS, which is compatible with my previous
MIPS virt machine effort.

Maybe I should bring MIPSSIM work back?

Thanks
- Jiaxun

>
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 4a3c302962..133c8bab93 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -257,6 +257,19 @@ Big-Endian variants of MicroBlaze 
> ``petalogix-ml605`` and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` ma
>  Both ``petalogix-ml605`` and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` were added for little 
> endian
>  CPUs. Big endian support is not tested.
> 
> +Mips ``mipssim`` machine (since 10.0)
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +Linux dropped support for this virtual machine type in kernel v3.7, and
> +there does not seem to be anybody around who is still using this board
> +in QEMU: Most former MIPS-related people are working on other architectures
> +in their everyday job nowadays, and we are also not aware of anybody still
> +using old binaries with this board (i.e. there is also no binary available
> +online to check that this board did not completely bitrot yet). It is
> +recommended to use another MIPS machine for future MIPS code development
> +instead.
> +
> +
>  Backend options
>  ---------------
> 
> -- 
> 2.48.1

-- 
- Jiaxun