Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ?

[Bastian Koppelmann]

On 03/09/2018 04:13 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
> Bastian Koppelmann <address@hidden> writes:
[...]
> > 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.
> All things being equal I agree, however there is a maintenance burden
> for the QEMU upstream, especially if the only active use if on
> out-of-tree branches or behind the closed doors of research groups.
>
> Looking at https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/TileGX it
> doesn't give much of an idea of where I would get toolchains to build
> guest binaries or what guest user-space I could run.

I'm not saying, we shouldn't drop them. To me it felt like we brought 
just another target to the chop block while we were at it.

Maybe a good approach is to deprecate the target first, then ask if 
somebody else is willing to maintain it, and if this fails, drop it.

Cheers,
Bastian