On Tue, 13 Feb 2024 at 15:36, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 13, 2024 at 03:14:21PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 at 14:36, Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 2/12/24 04:32, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > > The machines I have in mind are: > > > > > > > > PXA2xx machines: > > > > > > > > akita Sharp SL-C1000 (Akita) PDA (PXA270) > > > > borzoi Sharp SL-C3100 (Borzoi) PDA (PXA270) > > > > connex Gumstix Connex (PXA255) > > > > mainstone Mainstone II (PXA27x) > > > > spitz Sharp SL-C3000 (Spitz) PDA (PXA270) > > > > terrier Sharp SL-C3200 (Terrier) PDA (PXA270) > > > > tosa Sharp SL-6000 (Tosa) PDA (PXA255) > > > > verdex Gumstix Verdex Pro XL6P COMs (PXA270) > > > > z2 Zipit Z2 (PXA27x) > > > > OMAP1 machines: > > > > > > > > cheetah Palm Tungsten|E aka. Cheetah PDA (OMAP310) > > > > sx1 Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V2 > > > > sx1-v1 Siemens SX1 (OMAP310) V1 > > > > OMAP2 machines: > > > > > > > > n800 Nokia N800 tablet aka. RX-34 (OMAP2420) > > > > n810 Nokia N810 tablet aka. RX-44 (OMAP2420) > > > > The one SA1110 machine: > > > > > > > > collie Sharp SL-5500 (Collie) PDA (SA-1110) > I am copying Arnd, the OMAP1 Linux kernel maintainers, PXA2 maintainers, > and the Linux omap mailing list for input. Sorry for the noise for those > who don't care, but I think it is useful to have your voices heard. Thanks to everybody for your input on this thread. My proposal is to drop from QEMU: * all the PXA2xx machines * all the OMAP2 machines * the cheetah OMAP1 machine leaving (at least for now) sx1, sx1-v1, collie. Rationale: * for QEMU dropping individual machines is much less beneficial than if we can drop support for an entire SoC * the OMAP2 QEMU code in particular is large, old and unmaintained, and none of the OMAP2 kernel maintainers said they were using QEMU in any of their testing/development * although Guenter is currently booting test kernels on some of the PXA2xx machines, nobody seemed to be using them as part of their active kernel development and my impression from the thread is that PXA is the closest of all these SoC families to being dropped from the kernel soon * nobody said they were using cheetah, so it's entirely untested and quite probably broken * on the other hand the OMAP1 sx1 model does seem to be being used as part of kernel development, and there was interest in keeping collie around I'm going to mark these as deprecated for the QEMU 9.0 release, which by our deprecate-and-drop policy means they will be still present in 9.0 (due out in April) and 9.1 (August-ish), and removed in 9.2 (December). I'm potentially open to persuasion if anybody thinks I'm being too drastic here; persuasion that came attached to a desire to help modernise the QEMU code for the relevant machines would be the most effective :-) thanks -- PMM
