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| author | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2024-09-03 17:07:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> | 2024-10-01 14:43:31 +0100 |
| commit | 21c1270f419034424dda0b5f3d275d24d1411a5b (patch) | |
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docs: Document removal of old Arm boards
Now we have removed all the board types that it covers, we can move
the text about old Arm boards from deprecated.rst to
removed-features.rst, tweaking it appropriately.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20240903160751.4100218-37-peter.maydell@linaro.org
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/removed-features.rst | 14 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index c0aa52d..1e21fbb 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -251,21 +251,6 @@ to correct issues, mostly regarding migration compatibility. These are no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to read and maintain. Use versions 3.0 and above as a replacement. -Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (since 9.0) -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' - -QEMU includes models of some machine types where the QEMU code that -emulates their SoCs is very old and unmaintained. This code is now -blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across -the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in -trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have -a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that -has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support -for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also -dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any -test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1`` -and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now. - PPC 405 ``ref405ep`` machine (since 9.1) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 06f8cc1..6e96cd0 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -998,6 +998,20 @@ The Nios II architecture was orphan. The machine was unmaintained. +Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (removed in 9.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +QEMU included models of some machine types where the QEMU code that +emulates their SoCs was very old and unmaintained. This code was +blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across +the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in +trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have +a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that +has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support +for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also +dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any +test images for it and don't know of anybody who does. + linux-user mode CPUs -------------------- |