Re: [Qemu-devel] proposal: drop linux-user unicore32 support from QEMU

[Xuetao Guan]

> On 14 June 2016 at 14:43, Xuetao Guan <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> On 20 May 2016 at 13:48, Riku Voipio <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> On torstaina 12. toukokuuta 2016 17.34.42 EEST, Peter Maydell wrote:
>>>>> We should either fix our unicore32 support to use the real
>>>>> syscall numbers, or just drop it; since nobody has touched
>>>>> linux-user/unicore32 since 2012, and there have been no
>>>>> commits to target-unicore32 that aren't generic "clean up
>>>>> all targets" type patches since 2012 or 2013, and nobody
>>>>> has ever complained that the syscall numbers are all broken,
>>>>> my initial inclination is to say we should just drop this.
>>>>>
>>>>> Opinions?
>>>
>>>> I agree. I don't have a test setup for unicore, so unicore
>>>> has seen nothing but compile testing...
>>>
>>> I've put a note in the 2.7 Changelog saying we're going to
>>> remove unicore32-linux-user in 2.8.
>
>> I'm the maintainer of target-unicore32.
>> Though there's no commit since 2012, we're using qemu (but
>> old version) to test our new kernel and software-images.
>> I'll upgrade to new qemu and fix syscall problem.
>
> Hi -- just a reminder that I would like to see the unicore32
> support updated to use the correct syscall numbers if we
> are not to remove the code for 2.8. You have until about
> the middle of October before 2.8 softfreeze.
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>
Sure, I'll fix it in this month.
Sorry for inconvenience.

Xuetao