Re: [Qemu-devel] Maintainers, please tell us how to boot your machines!

[Markus Armbruster]

Michael Walle <address@hidden> writes:

> Am 2019-03-12 18:36, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
>>     = hw/lm32/lm32_boards.c =
>>     Michael Walle <address@hidden> (maintainer:LM32)
>>
>>     = hw/lm32/milkymist.c =
>>     Michael Walle <address@hidden> (maintainer:milkymist)
>>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I guess it is time to pull the plug. Mainly, because I have no time
> for this anymore. I've always worked on this on my spare time and life
> changed. And secondly, I guess RISC-V is taking over ;) It has a far
> better ecosystem. Also, to my knowledge the only (public) user of LM32
> is milkymist and this project is dead for years now..
>
> So time to say goodbye. It was fun and I've learned a lot -
> technically and also how a huge open source project works. Thank you
> everyone for that :)

Thank *you* for your contribution!

> Basically everything still works and there are even TCG test cases
> which covers all instructions the processor has. But I doubt it makes
> any more sense to keep that architecture. If nobody wants to take over
> (I guess that is the case), I'll post my last and final commit to
> remove the lm32 architecture shortly..

We normally deprecate first, and remove only after a grace period,
commonly two releases.  If we deprecate right away (in 4.0), we'd remove
in 4.2, which I'd expect in December.  Would that work for you?