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authorPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>2023-11-20 15:08:24 +0000
committerAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2023-11-23 14:10:04 +0000
commit9997771bc17fa90297085118d7faa8256fe57b12 (patch)
tree9ab43b8bb89945d935af700056f6996b7fbcfb74 /docs
parent4789f9d3a16dbd8139d935ec3c5008d0fbd40f88 (diff)
target/nios2: Deprecate the Nios II architecture
See commit 9ba1caf510 ("MAINTAINERS: Mark the Nios II CPU as orphan"), last contribution from Chris was in 2012 [1] and Marek in 2018 [2]. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/1352607539-10455-2-git-send-email-crwulff@gmail.com/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/805fc7b5-03f0-56d4-abfd-ed010d4fa769@denx.de/ Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de> Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20231117070250.32932-1-philmd@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20231120150833.2552739-6-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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@@ -236,6 +236,16 @@ it. Since all recent x86 hardware from the past >10 years is capable of the
64-bit x86 extensions, a corresponding 64-bit OS should be used instead.
+System emulator CPUs
+--------------------
+
+Nios II CPU (since 8.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is
+deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU.
+
+
System emulator machines
------------------------
@@ -254,6 +264,11 @@ These old machine types are quite neglected nowadays and thus might have
various pitfalls with regards to live migration. Use a newer machine type
instead.
+Nios II ``10m50-ghrd`` and ``nios2-generic-nommu`` machines (since 8.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The Nios II architecture is orphan.
+
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