From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39120) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er15e-0002RD-9p for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:44:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er15b-0006OV-6l for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:44:10 -0500 Received: from mail.uni-paderborn.de ([131.234.142.9]:35294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1er15a-0006Nz-SB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 28 Feb 2018 07:44:07 -0500 References: <0304e590-ab51-649b-7cee-bb7c5be6f5e4@redhat.com> From: Bastian Koppelmann Message-ID: Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:41:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <0304e590-ab51-649b-7cee-bb7c5be6f5e4@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ? List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth , Peter Maydell , QEMU Developers Cc: Chen Gang , Guan Xuetao , Chen Gang , Chen Gang , Richard Henderson On 02/28/2018 07:11 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 27.02.2018 12:51, Peter Maydell wrote: >> I propose that we deprecate and plan to remove the unicore32 code: > [...] [...] > > Sounds reasonable to me, but let's wait a week or two for feedback from > Guan Xuetao. Agreed. > >> Possibly there are other target architectures we could reasonably >> deprecate-and-remove (though none of the other ones Linux is dropping >> in this round are ones we support)... > > I'd vote for marking tilegx as deprecated, too, since we even do not > have an active maintainer for that CPU core (at least I did not spot one > in our MAINTAINERS file). Opinions? I always saw it as a big plus that QEMU supports nearly any architecture, no matter how obscure it is. So I'm a bit more hesitant on dropping architectures quickly. Cheers, Bastian