[Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ? (was: Proposal: deprecate and remove QEMU's unicore32 target code)

[Thomas Huth]

On 27.02.2018 12:51, Peter Maydell wrote:
> I propose that we deprecate and plan to remove the unicore32 code:
[...]
> Essentially, it seems to be a largely-inactive university R&D project,
> it's costing us in maintenance effort every time we have to touch it,
> and I don't think it has any real users.
>
> Does anybody disagree?
> 
> If we go ahead with deprecating then we should:
>  * add a note to Changelog that we're deprecating the target
>  * ditto qemu-doc.texi's deprecation section
>  * patch hw/unicore32/puv3.c to warn on startup that it's deprecated
>  * remove it entirely for the 2.14 release
> 
> We could also remove linux-user/unicore32 immediately, since
> the linux-user target has been disabled for some time.

Sounds reasonable to me, but let's wait a week or two for feedback from
Guan Xuetao.

> 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?

 Thomas