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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
To: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Cc: "Fam Zheng" <fam@euphon.net>, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"QEMU Developers" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PULL 7/8] gitlab: create a build-deprecated target
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2020 19:47:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFEAcA_v+b=AckQb6pZ5ifia7NWTuOmSkoSQymSvbynZueP3+A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20693fff-9b29-3bf2-2d36-444d2724982e@linaro.org>

On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 at 19:34, Richard Henderson
<richard.henderson@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On 9/25/20 8:54 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 at 14:52, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
> >> Should we stop building the ppc64abi32 target instead?
> >>
> >> From c609274b853 ("docs/system/deprecated: mark
> >> ppc64abi32-linux-user for deprecation"):
> >>
> >>  The ppc64abi32 architecture has a number of issues which regularly
> >>  trip up our CI testing and is suspected to be quite broken. For that
> >>  reason the maintainers strongly suspect no one actually uses it.
> >
> > It still builds fine and it also runs the 'ls' binary in
> > the linux-user-test collection (ie the 32-bit PPC binary).
>
> But signal handling is completely wrong

That is also true for sparc linux-user (RT signal frames
completely unimplemented)...

Anyway, my point was mostly that there is a class of programs
which do run OK on it, so we should continue to build and test
it to the level we do today until the deprecation period runs
out. It is not so badly broken as to be a candidate for dropping
immediately.

thanks
-- PMM


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-25 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-16 12:26 [PULL 0/8] configure deprecation, linux-user and test fix Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 1/8] linux-user: test, don't assert addr != test in pgb_reserved_va Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26   ` [Bug 1895080] " Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 2/8] iotests: Drop readlink -f Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 3/8] configure: move deprecated feature processing to supported_target Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 4/8] configure: also skip deprecated targets with target-list-exclude Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 5/8] configure: clean-up the target-list-exclude logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 6/8] configure: include tilegx-linux-user in the deprecation logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 7/8] gitlab: create a build-deprecated target Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 12:40   ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-16 13:23     ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-16 13:52       ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-25 15:54         ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-25 18:34           ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-25 18:47             ` Peter Maydell [this message]
2020-09-16 12:26 ` [PULL 8/8] configure: add [lm32|unicore32]-softmmu to deprecation logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-17 19:40 ` [PULL 0/8] configure deprecation, linux-user and test fix Peter Maydell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-15 13:43 [PATCH v2 0/8] configure deprecation, linux-user and iotest fixes Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] linux-user: test, don't assert addr != test in pgb_reserved_va Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 13:43   ` [Bug 1895080] " Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 15:58   ` Laurent Vivier
2020-09-15 15:58     ` [Bug 1895080] " Laurent Vivier
2020-09-15 17:13   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] iotests: Drop readlink -f Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 17:14   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] configure: move deprecated feature processing to supported_target Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 13:51   ` Michael Tokarev
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] configure: also skip deprecated targets with target-list-exclude Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 17:16   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] configure: clean-up the target-list-exclude logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 17:17   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] configure: include tilegx-linux-user in the deprecation logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 17:17   ` Richard Henderson
2020-09-15 17:47   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] gitlab: create a build-deprecated target Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 13:43 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] configure: add [lm32|unicore32]-softmmu to deprecation logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 17:20   ` Richard Henderson
2020-10-29 12:25   ` Thomas Huth
2020-10-29 14:42     ` Alex Bennée
2020-10-29 15:28       ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 15:07 [PATCH v1 0/6] deprecation and linux-user tweaks (+test fix) Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v1 1/6] linux-user: test, don't assert addr != test in pgb_reserved_va Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 15:07   ` [Bug 1895080] " Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v1 2/6] configure: use add_to for tweaking deprecated_features Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 16:14   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v1 3/6] configure: also skip deprecated targets with target-list-exclude Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 19:17   ` Peter Maydell
2020-09-15  9:22     ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v1 4/6] configure: include tilegx-linux-user in the auto-exclude logic Alex Bennée
2020-09-15 12:58   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v1 5/6] gitlab: create a build-deprecated target Alex Bennée
2020-09-14 15:15   ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2020-09-14 16:16   ` Thomas Huth
2020-09-14 15:07 ` [PATCH v1 6/6] iotests: Work around failing readlink -f Alex Bennée
2020-09-11 14:56 [RFC PATCH] linux-user: test, don't assert addr != test in pgb_reserved_va Alex Bennée
2020-09-11 14:56 ` [Bug 1895080] Re: pgb_reserved_va: Assertion `addr == test' failed Alex Bennée
2020-09-10  3:46 [Bug 1895080] [NEW] " Hansni Bu
2020-09-10  6:18 ` [Bug 1895080] " Laurent Vivier
2020-09-10 19:04 ` [Bug 1895080] [NEW] " Laurent Vivier
2020-09-11  5:57   ` Hansni Bu
2020-09-11  9:34   ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-11  9:38     ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-11 10:18       ` Hansni Bu
2020-09-11 11:54         ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-11 11:54           ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-11 12:32           ` Hansni Bu
2020-09-11 14:47             ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-11 14:47               ` Alex Bennée
2020-09-11  8:30 ` [Bug 1895080] " Alex Bennée
2020-09-11  9:31   ` Hansni Bu
2020-09-15  2:09 ` Hansni Bu
2020-11-08  9:43 ` Thomas Huth
2020-12-10  9:17 ` Thomas Huth

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