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target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA
authorPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Mon, 2 Nov 2020 10:30:30 +0000 (11:30 +0100)
committerPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Sun, 8 Nov 2020 23:21:59 +0000 (00:21 +0100)
commita60442eb8d97d37d3ae031739503dec4912a1127
tree3c2f47cf97c77e4e95cc2d579cddf6f770d39f6d
parent3493c36f0371777c62d1d72b205b0eb6117e2156
target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA

The nanoMIPS ISA has been announced in 2018 for various projects:

GCC:   https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2018-05/msg00012.html
Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/753605/
QEMU:  https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg530721.html

Unfortunately the links referenced doesn't work anymore (www.mips.com).

From this Wayback machine link [1] we can get to a working place to
download a toolchain (a more recent release than the one referenced
in the announcement mails):
http://codescape.mips.com/components/toolchain/nanomips/2018.04-02/downloads.html

The toolchain page mention LLVM but simply links http://llvm.org/
where there is no reference on nanoMIPS.

The only reference in the GCC mailing list, is the nanoMIPS
announcement: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2018-May.txt

The developer who authored the announcements have been emailed [2]
to ask for more information but all their emails are now bouncing:

- Your message to Stefan.Markovic@mips.com couldn't be delivered.

- Your message to smarkovic@wavecomp.com couldn't be delivered.

- Couldn't deliver the message to the following recipients:
    Robert.Suchanek@mips.com, matthew.fortune@mips.com,
    marcin.nowakowski@mips.com

Our deprecation policy do not allow feature removal before 2 release,
therefore declare the nanoMIPS ISA code deprecated as of QEMU 5.2.
This gives time to developers to update the QEMU community, or
interested parties to step in to maintain this code.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180904044530/https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/compilers/
[2] https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg756392.html

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20201102202710.2224691-1-f4bug@amsat.org>
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