Re: [PATCH] Deprecate lm32 port

[Thomas Huth]

On 27/08/2020 13.32, Peter Maydell wrote:
> Deprecate our lm32 target support. Michael Walle (former lm32 maintainer)
> suggested that we do this in 2019:
>  https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg605024.html
> because the only public user of the architecture is the many-years-dead
> milkymist project. (The Linux port to lm32 was never merged upstream.)
> 
> In commit 4b4d96c776f552e (March 2020) we marked it as 'orphan' in
> the MAINTAINERS file, but didn't officially deprecate it. Mark it
> deprecated now, with the intention of removing it from QEMU in
> mid-2021 before the 6.1 release.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> Based-on: 20200825172719.19422-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org
> ("Deprecate Unicore32 port") to avoid the obvious textual-conflict.
> 
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 4c52098c707..5c7fc8a3c99 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -416,6 +416,14 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format::
>  linux-user mode CPUs
>  --------------------
>  
> +``lm32`` CPUs (since 5.2.0)
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The ``lm32`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in
> +a future version of QEMU. The only public user of this architecture
> +was the milkymist project, which has been dead for years; there was
> +never an upstream Linux port.

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

What's next? moxie? ... apart from the tree-wide clean-ups and trivial
fixes, moxie did not have any major updates since 2013 when it has been
added, as far as I can see ... is anybody still using it?