Re: [PATCH] Deprecate TileGX port

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

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.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> We discussed dropping this target last year:
>  https://patchew.org/QEMU/20191012071210.13632-1-philmd@redhat.com/
> 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 <berrange@redhat.com>


Regards,
Daniel
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