On Fri, Mar 08, 2024 at 03:41:48PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > 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 :-) > sgtm Guenter
