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

[Peter Krempa]

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 21:13:11 +0100, 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

To be honest, libvirt doesn't have a single mips-based VM definition in
the test-suite, so our mips support is rather theoretical.

On behalf of libvirt:

ACKed-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>