From: Peter Maydell Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2020 17:27:19 +0000 (+0100) Subject: Deprecate Unicore32 port X-Git-Tag: v5.2.0-rc0~115^2~17 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8e4ff4a8d2ba98d6e3d13404500299880d6432b6;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git Deprecate Unicore32 port Deprecate our Unicore32 target support: * the Linux kernel dropped support for unicore32 in commit 05119217a9bd199c for its 5.9 release (with rationale in the cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/3/232 ) * there is apparently no upstream toolchain that can create unicore32 binaries * the maintainer doesn't seem to have made any contributions to QEMU since the port first landed in 2012 * nobody else seems to have made changes to the unicore code except for generic cleanups either Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Message-id: 20200825172719.19422-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org --- diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index b633fb3ef05..3f8a00e9095 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -408,6 +408,14 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format:: linux-user mode CPUs -------------------- +``unicore32`` CPUs (since 5.2.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``unicore32`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in +a future version of QEMU. Support for this CPU was removed from the +upstream Linux kernel, and there is no available upstream toolchain +to build binaries for it. + ``tilegx`` CPUs (since 5.1.0) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''