On 01/02/2024 13.28, Alex Bennée wrote:
This might be premature but while streamling the avocado tests I
s/streamling/streamlining/ ?
realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The aging
fedora-criss-cross image works well enough for developers but can't be
s/criss/cris/
used in CI as we need supported build platforms to build QEMU.
Does this mean the writing is on the wall for this architecture?
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xxxxxxxxxx>
Message-Id: <20230925144854.1872513-5-alex.bennee@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index d4492b94604..82922476d72 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ 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.
+CRIS CPU architecture (since 9.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The CRIS architecture was pulled from Linux in 4.17 and the compiler
+is no longer packaged in any distro making it harder to run the
+``check-tcg`` tests. Unless we can improve the testing situation there
+is a chance the code will bitrot without anyone noticing.
With the typos fixed:
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@xxxxxxxxxx>
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