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| author | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2022-09-14 16:59:41 +0100 |
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| committer | Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> | 2022-09-20 17:22:08 +0100 |
| commit | 54ab3c3feef6e5a6c6cf97c4532ebed642ec2705 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a875fa3312273da6031106dbecaf9f9cfc6a9c0 /docs | |
| parent | 66dca267489e7b150546297e7c33a04430a15eb4 (diff) | |
Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS
It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host
architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS
which supports fewer architectures. For now:
- mark it's deprecation in the docs
- downgrade the containers to build TCG tests only
- drop the cross builds from our CI
Users with an appropriate toolchain and user-space can still take
their chances building it.
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20220914155950.804707-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst index a2fee53248..1c1e7b9e11 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 + * - MIPS (little endian only) - kvm, tcg * - PPC - kvm, tcg diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index c75a25daad..0d1fd4469b 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -213,6 +213,19 @@ MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM support (since 6.0) The MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM host and guest support has been removed from Linux upstream kernel, declare it deprecated. +Host Architectures +------------------ + +BE MIPS (since 7.2) +''''''''''''''''''' + +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. + QEMU API (QAPI) events ---------------------- |