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From: "Petar Jovanovic" <mips32r2@gmail.com>
To: "'Philippe Mathieu-Daudé'" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"Aleksandar Rikalo" <Aleksandar.Rikalo@syrmia.com>,
	"'Vince Del Vecchio'" <Vince.DelVecchio@mediatek.com>,
	"'Richard Henderson'" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: 'Stefan Weil' <sw@weilnetz.de>,
	chenhuacai@kernel.org, aurelien@aurel32.net,
	paulburton@kernel.org,
	Filip Vidojevic <Filip.Vidojevic@Syrmia.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA"
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 01:24:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000201d7363c$501f5f90$f05e1eb0$@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c8560e72-0775-031f-3304-1eb762224265@amsat.org>

On 4/20/21 6:06 PM, Aleksandar Rikalo wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
> 
>> The plan is to drop the nanoMIPS disassembler because it is broken 
>> since more than 2 years and nobody ever cared to fix it after 
>> Stefan's attempt in Nov 2018:
>> https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg576504.html
>> So it is certainly unused. Unused unmaintained code has a cost and 
>> negative impact to the generic project development.
> 
> How do you conclude it is broken ? It seems to work well.
> Aleksandar Markovic did few fixes during 2019.

> One community user tried it, reported a bug which got never fixed. This
means the code is not used by the mainstream community, but is a burden for
maintenance.

Hi Philippe,

I am not sure I understand this. What bug about nanomips disassembler was
reported?

> 
> NanoMIPS needs disassembler, like other architectures...

> I totally agreed, but we need a working disassembler;

We have a working disassembler in. If there is a bug that needs to be
resolved, please bring it to our attention.
Thanks.

Regards,
Petar



      reply	other threads:[~2021-04-20 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20210408085810.10567-1-Filip.Vidojevic@Syrmia.com>
2021-04-08 17:01 ` [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA" Aleksandar Rikalo
2021-04-08 18:16   ` Richard Henderson
2021-04-09  1:10     ` Vince Del Vecchio
2021-04-09 14:44       ` Richard Henderson
2021-04-19 18:11       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-20 16:06         ` Aleksandar Rikalo
2021-04-20 16:47           ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-04-20 23:24             ` Petar Jovanovic [this message]

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