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

[Jiaxun Yang]

在2025年1月21日一月 下午12:07，Jiaxun Yang写道：
> 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 has been withdrawn from the Linux kernel (i.e. there also won't be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?
                        ^ Oops I meant MIPS VIRT.

Thanks
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- Jiaxun