Hi Vince, On 4/9/21 3:10 AM, Vince Del Vecchio wrote: > On Tuesday, April 6, 2021 11:21 AM, Richard Henderson wrote: > >> I think we should retain the deprecation until you actually follow through >> with any of the upstreaming.
> In sum, we're investing in open source nanoMIPS tools because it's an > important technology for us, and QEMU is one of the key projects we want to > have nanoMIPS supported in. I'm glad MediaTek has interest in MIPS and is willing to contribute upstream and help in maintenance! QEMU MIPS codebase is huge and I don't have the time/resources to maintain it alone. Regarding the nanoMIPS deprecation, don't worry, we are not going to remove the nanoMIPS TCG and I7200 core because 1/ it is not breaking anything, 2/ it is in good shape and 3/ most importantly there are users in the community. The plan is to drop the nanoMIPS disassembler because it is broken since more than 2 years and nobody ever cared to fix it after Stefan's attempt in Nov 2018: https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg576504.html So it is certainly unused. Unused unmaintained code has a cost and negative impact to the generic project development. If you think it is worth having, you should consider moving it to the capstone project (https://www.capstone-engine.org/ - it also uses C++ btw), so other projects could disassemble nanoMIPS blobs. I prepared a series [1] which split the TCG code from the big translate.c in one file per ISA. It helps maintenance, as we can have finer granularity in who reviews/maintains what (using MAINTAINERS sections) easing collective maintenance in a community. I'll Cc your team for help with reviewing it when I repost it (give me up to 1 month). Regards, Phil. [1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2020-11/msg05879.html
