From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>
To: Aleksandar Rikalo <Aleksandar.Rikalo@syrmia.com>,
Vince Del Vecchio <Vince.DelVecchio@mediatek.com>,
Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Cc: "paulburton@kernel.org" <paulburton@kernel.org>,
Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>,
"chenhuacai@kernel.org" <chenhuacai@kernel.org>,
Petar Jovanovic <petar.jovanovic@syrmia.com>,
"aurelien@aurel32.net" <aurelien@aurel32.net>,
Filip Vidojevic <Filip.Vidojevic@Syrmia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA"
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2021 18:47:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c8560e72-0775-031f-3304-1eb762224265@amsat.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VI1PR0302MB3486B078E5E08DF7EC15792C9C489@VI1PR0302MB3486.eurprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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.
>
> NanoMIPS needs disassembler, like other architectures...
I totally agreed, but we need a working disassembler; this is why
I started looking for other alternatives (binutils libopcodes or
capstone) and realized nanoMIPS toolchain was never upstreamed,
so started the deprecation process.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-20 16:50 UTC|newest]
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[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 [this message]
2021-04-20 23:24 ` Petar Jovanovic
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