Re: [PATCH-for-5.2 v3] hw/mips: Remove the 'r4k' machine

[Thomas Huth]

On 02/11/2020 21.13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> We deprecated the support for the 'r4k' machine for the 5.0 release
> (commit d32dc61421), which means that our deprecation policy allows
> us to drop it in release 5.2. Remove the code.
> 
> To repeat the rationale from the deprecation note:
> - this virtual machine has no specification
> - the Linux kernel dropped support for it 10 years ago
> 
> Users are recommended to use the Malta board instead.
> 
> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
> v3: Move to "Recently removed features" section
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst                    |  12 +-
>  .../devices/mips-softmmu-common.mak           |   1 -
>  hw/mips/r4k.c                                 | 318 ------------------
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   6 -
>  hw/mips/Kconfig                               |  13 -
>  hw/mips/meson.build                           |   1 -
>  6 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 345 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 hw/mips/r4k.c
> 
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 0ebce37a191..e5b7cf274d3 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -327,12 +327,6 @@ The 'scsi-disk' device is deprecated. Users should use 
> 'scsi-hd' or
>  System emulator machines
>  ------------------------
>  
> -mips ``r4k`` platform (since 5.0)
> -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> -
> -This machine type is very old and unmaintained. Users should use the 
> ``malta``
> -machine type instead.
> -
>  mips ``fulong2e`` machine (since 5.1)
>  '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>  
> @@ -575,6 +569,12 @@ The version specific Spike machines have been removed in 
> favour of the
>  generic ``spike`` machine. If you need to specify an older version of the 
> RISC-V
>  spec you can use the ``-cpu rv64gcsu,priv_spec=v1.10.0`` command line 
> argument.
>  
> +mips ``r4k`` platform (removed in 5.2)
> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +This machine type is very old and unmaintained. Users should use the 
> ``malta``
> +machine type instead.

Ah, just spotted this v3 - that's better now indeed :-)
Maybe change "is very old" into "was very old"?

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