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Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:24:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rtrkn153 ([46.240.135.222]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x25sm297968wmj.34.2021.04.20.16.24.29 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 20 Apr 2021 16:24:30 -0700 (PDT) From: "Petar Jovanovic" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=E9'?= , "Aleksandar Rikalo" , "'Vince Del Vecchio'" , "'Richard Henderson'" , References: <20210408085810.10567-1-Filip.Vidojevic@Syrmia.com> <7c630c72-580f-ab67-be62-aaf01768c5a6@amsat.org> In-Reply-To: Subject: RE: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA" Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2021 01:24:28 +0200 Message-ID: <000201d7363c$501f5f90$f05e1eb0$@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 15.0 Thread-Index: AQHXLFVcDWm9FQ9LmUmRmYmlgVEYZaqq1qRYgAAXXwCAAHOMAIAQ1IEAgAFlP+aAABXBAIAAbhVw Content-Language: en-us Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::434; envelope-from=mips32r2@gmail.com; helo=mail-wr1-x434.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -17 X-Spam_score: -1.8 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham 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: 'Stefan Weil' , chenhuacai@kernel.org, aurelien@aurel32.net, paulburton@kernel.org, Filip Vidojevic Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" 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