On 6/19/20 5:48 PM, 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. > > 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(+) > > diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst > index 3a255591c34..e9097e089bb 100644 > --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst > +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst > @@ -387,6 +387,17 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format:: > > json:{"file.driver":"rbd", "file.pool":"rbd", "file.image":"name"} > > +linux-user mode CPUs > +-------------------- > + > +``tilegx`` CPUs (since 5.1.0) > +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > + > +The ``tilegx`` guest CPU support (which was only implemented in > +linux-user mode) is deprecated and will be removed in a future version > +of QEMU. Support for this CPU was removed from the upstream Linux > +kernel in 2018, and has also been dropped from glibc. > + > Related binaries > ---------------- >
Thanks for writing this down, simple and effective! Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
