Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 09:34:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8d64e197-7002-79fd-4e97-cc224099f26f@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220914155950.804707-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

On 9/14/22 16:59, Alex Bennée wrote:
> It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host
> architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS
> which supports fewer architectures. For now:
> 
>    - mark it's deprecation in the docs
>    - downgrade the containers to build TCG tests only
>    - drop the cross builds from our CI
> 
> Users with an appropriate toolchain and user-space can still take
> their chances building it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée<alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé<f4bug@amsat.org>
> Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen<chenhuacai@kernel.org>
> Message-Id:<20220826172128.353798-16-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> 
> ---
> v2
>    - explicit little endian instead of LE
>    - s/A/As/
>    - restore mips to dockerfile
> ---
>   docs/about/build-platforms.rst                |  2 +-
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst                     | 13 +++++++
>   .gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml              |  1 -
>   .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml                  | 14 -------
>   tests/docker/Makefile.include                 |  5 +--
>   .../dockerfiles/debian-mips-cross.docker      | 38 +++++--------------
>   6 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 47 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


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