On 6/19/20 5:51 PM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > 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.
This is the approach I started 2 releases back... Having a DEPRECATED_TARGET environment variable, you add your target there and warnings are displayed. It resulted not that easy, and 2 releases passed... > >> >> 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 >
