From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE579C433DB for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.gnu.org (lists.gnu.org [209.51.188.17]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4B9AA20773 for ; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 09:54:47 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4B9AA20773 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=physik.fu-berlin.de Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Received: from localhost ([::1]:43016 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksNKY-0004iZ-RJ for qemu-devel@archiver.kernel.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:54:46 -0500 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46670) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksNJb-0004Hx-NM for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:53:47 -0500 Received: from outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.66]:60103) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksNJY-0008HJ-Cr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 04:53:47 -0500 Received: from inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([130.133.4.69]) by outpost.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) for qemu-devel@nongnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (envelope-from ) id 1ksNJT-002hef-GT; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:53:39 +0100 Received: from dynamic-089-012-156-039.89.12.pool.telefonica.de ([89.12.156.39] helo=[192.168.1.10]) by inpost2.zedat.fu-berlin.de (Exim 4.94) for qemu-devel@nongnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2) tls TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (envelope-from ) id 1ksNJS-0045Zc-OT; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:53:39 +0100 To: QEMU Developers From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz Subject: Deprecation of the LM32 target Message-ID: <49c3d04e-a94c-cf77-4df9-5ceb8c9c7f80@physik.fu-berlin.de> Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 10:53:38 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Original-Sender: glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de X-Originating-IP: 89.12.156.39 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=130.133.4.66; envelope-from=glaubitz@zedat.fu-berlin.de; helo=outpost1.zedat.fu-berlin.de X-Spam_score_int: -41 X-Spam_score: -4.2 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, 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: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" Hello! I was just browsing through the QEMU Christmas Calendar [1] and noticed the announcement for the deprecation of the LM32 target. I'm not sure what the motivation of the deprecation is, but isn't one of the big selling points of QEMU to support deprecated targets? If QEMU eventually ends up supporting commercially available targets only and kicking out everything that is obsolete, I'm not sure what the point of QEMU would be in the first place as products like VMWare and VirtualBox already provide virtualization functionality. Please don't deprecate targets just because they're old. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://www.qemu-advent-calendar.org/2020/ -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913