On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 11:03 PM Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.m.mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 26, 2019, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi Aleksandar, >> >> On 11/26/19 9:46 PM, Aleksandar Markovic wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:41 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé >>> <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> The r4k machine was introduced in 2005 (6af0bf9c7) and its last >>>> logical change was in 2005 (9542611a6). After we can count 164 >>>> maintenance commits (QEMU API changes) with the exception of >>>> 1 fix in 2015 (memory leak, commit 3ad9fd5a). >>>> >>>> This machine was introduced as a proof of concept to run a MIPS >>>> CPU. 2 years later, the Malta machine was add (commit 5856de80) >>>> modeling a real platform. >>>> >>>> Note also this machine has no specification except 5 lines in >>>> the header of this file: >>>> >>>> * emulates a simple machine with ISA-like bus. >>>> * ISA IO space mapped to the 0x14000000 (PHYS) and >>>> * ISA memory at the 0x10000000 (PHYS, 16Mb in size). >>>> * All peripherial devices are attached to this "bus" with >>>> * the standard PC ISA addresses. >>>> >>>> It is time to deprecate this obsolete machine. Users are >>>> recommended to use the Malta board, which hardware is well >>>> documented. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> >>>> --- >>> >>> >>> Philippe, >>> >>> I see you added "libvir-list" in "cc". Was it a mistake, or there was >>> some purpose? >> >> >> I don't pick the series recipient manually, I send my series with git-publish. Here it used the default QEMU profile. >> >> All profiles call git-sendmail with the cc-cmd set to the get_maintainer.pl script: >> >> $ cat .gitpublish >> # >> # Common git-publish profiles that can be used to send patches to QEMU upstream. >> # >> # See https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish for more information >> # >> [gitpublishprofile "default"] >> base = master >> to = qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx >> cccmd = scripts/get_maintainer.pl --noroles --norolestats --nogit --nogit-fallback 2>/dev/null >> >> Having a closer look, libvir-list list was Cc'ed because it is listed as reviewer of the qemu-deprecated.texi file, which was modified. >> >> ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f qemu-deprecated.texi >> libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx (reviewer:Incompatible changes) >> qemu-devel@xxxxxxxxxx (open list:All patches CC here) >> > > OK. No problem. It just looked strange. > > As far as consuktations, I am just waiting for some responses within company to establish if somebody is perhaps using this machine with some ancient kernel. I got some opinions that are in favor of R4000 machine deprecating, but I need to wait for all relevant departments to confirm. > > What happened to TileGX? Peter Maydell suggested to postpone deprecations for after 4.2, since we are already at rc3 (and deprecating a target involves modifying the ./configure script). [...] -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
