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| author | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2024-10-27 14:07:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> | 2024-10-31 18:28:32 +0100 |
| commit | 14ed29da419f2bfcf177af21348e0e3c643ac6b0 (patch) | |
| tree | fecdfc1def26caf4512b98b6180a6065edf82c30 /docs/about | |
| parent | 0665b3f9925ee7041e6a8eee9d1deda59a726383 (diff) | |
configure, meson: deprecate 32-bit MIPS
The mipsel architecture is not available in Debian Trixie, and it will
likely be a hard failure as soon as we drop support for the old Rust
toolchain in Debian Bookworm. Prepare by deprecating 32-bit little
endian MIPS in QEMU 9.2.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/about')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 12 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index 8fd7da140a..b779eb5493 100644 --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst @@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Those hosts are officially supported, with various accelerators: - Accelerators * - Arm - kvm (64 bit only), tcg, xen - * - MIPS (little endian only) + * - MIPS (64 bit little endian only) - kvm, tcg * - PPC - kvm, tcg diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 1e1e9f5f18..7c2be89325 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -164,15 +164,19 @@ property types. Host Architectures ------------------ -BE MIPS (since 7.2) -''''''''''''''''''' +Big endian MIPS since 7.2; 32-bit little endian MIPS since 9.2 +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process -completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are -still a supported host architecture. +completes. + +Likewise, the little endian variant of 32 bit MIPS is not supported by +Debian 13 ("Trixie") and newer. + +64 bit little endian MIPS is still a supported host architecture. System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts (since 8.0) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' |