Re: [PATCH 2/5] docs: mark CRIS support as deprecated

[Thomas Huth]

On 01/02/2024 13.28, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This might be premature but while streamling the avocado tests I

s/streamling/streamlining/ ?

> realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The aging
> fedora-criss-cross image works well enough for developers but can't be

s/criss/cris/

> used in CI as we need supported build platforms to build QEMU.
>
> Does this mean the writing is on the wall for this architecture?
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
> Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
> Message-Id: <20230925144854.1872513-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index d4492b94604..82922476d72 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ Nios II CPU (since 8.2)
>   The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is
>   deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU.
>   
> +CRIS CPU architecture (since 9.0)
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The CRIS architecture was pulled from Linux in 4.17 and the compiler
> +is no longer packaged in any distro making it harder to run the
> +``check-tcg`` tests. Unless we can improve the testing situation there
> +is a chance the code will bitrot without anyone noticing.

With the typos fixed:
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>