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(was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) Content-Language: en-US To: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2e_Berrang=c3=a9?= , Christophe Leroy References: <20210927044808.73391-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <18fa56ee-956e-ee2f-9270-82aa96dfde09@redhat.com> <40cdb137-60c9-43fd-7b48-4858cbd9307c@redhat.com> <6c2ff4e6-4bf4-d310-5e26-c8d2741177bc@redhat.com> <42e5a8c2-b8fa-b9e2-71f1-c8e5cd7f5cef@csgroup.eu> <1397f18f-f187-6f48-ed6c-13c0b77abed9@redhat.com> <9aeb7010-0a17-864a-cfac-ea5d90356085@csgroup.eu> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::430; envelope-from=philippe.mathieu.daude@gmail.com; helo=mail-wr1-x430.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -14 X-Spam_score: -1.5 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.5 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.249, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Christophe Leroy , Peter Maydell , Thomas Huth , dbarboza@redhat.com, Alexey Kardashevskiy , Mark Cave-Ayland , QEMU Developers , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , Greg Kurz , Alexander Graf , qemu-ppc , =?UTF-8?Q?C=c3=a9dric_Le_Goater?= , Cleber Rosa , =?UTF-8?Q?Herv=c3=a9_Poussineau?= , "Edgar E. Iglesias" , David Gibson Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 10/5/21 10:49, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:44:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >> I will look at it, please allow me a few weeks though. > > Once something is deprecated, it remains in QEMU for a minimum of two > release cycles, before being deleted. At any time in that deprecation > period it can be returned to supported status, if someone provides a > good enough justification to keep it. My understanding is once being in deprecated state for 2 releases, it can be removed, but it doesn't have to be removed (assuming it is functional and nobody complains). Am I incorrect? I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep it functional. However, since no toolchain reached mainstream GCC/LLVM it is not easy to maintain. By keeping it in that state we give some time to other communities to have their toolchain upstreamed / merged. > IOW, we can deprecate this now, and you still have plenty of time to > investigate more. Yes, almost 8 months :)