On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 04:48:31PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote: > Deprecate our TileGX target support: > * we have no active maintainer for it > * it has had essentially no contributions (other than tree-wide cleanups > and similar) since it was first added > * the Linux kernel dropped support in 2018, as has glibc > > Note the deprecation in the manual, but don't try to print a warning > when QEMU runs -- printing unsuppressable messages is more obtrusive > for linux-user mode than it would be for system-emulation mode, and > it doesn't seem worth trying to invent a new suppressible-error > system for linux-user just for this.
Potentially we could turn it off by default in configure, so it requires an explicit --target-list to request it, but either way, I don't mind. > > Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <[email protected]> > --- > We discussed dropping this target last year: > https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/ > and before that in 2018, when Chen told us he didn't have time > to work on tilegx any more: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg03955.html > Given that tilegx is no longer in upstream Linux I think it makes sense > to finally deprecate-and-drop our linux-user support for it. > > docs/system/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
