Hi; I'm wondering if anybody is using QEMU's iwmmxt/xscale emulation
for toolchain testing. (My suspicion is the answer is "no".)

This emulation isn't enabled by default, so to use it you would have
to explicitly select an iwmmxt capable CPU (with -cpu or the QEMU_CPU
environment variable). The relevant CPU types are anything beginning
"pxa" (pxa250, pxa255, pxa260, pxa261, pxa262, pxa270-a0, pxa270-a1,
pxa270, pxa270-b0, pxa270-b1, pxa270-c0, pxa270-c5).

The context for this is that I'm considering deprecate-and-drop
for this emulation. (We already dropped all the system emulation
of boards that use these CPUs, so the only thing remaining is their
support via QEMU's user-mode emulation.) If there's still somebody
using this then I'm OK keeping it in QEMU a bit longer, but if
as I suspect it's all entirely unused then we might as well start
the process of dropping it.

(I'm aware that GCC is in the process of dropping its iwmmxt
codegen support. I also didn't find anything particularly with
a web search with examples of users using it.)

thanks
-- PMM
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