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authorAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2022-09-14 16:59:41 +0100
committerAlex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>2022-09-20 17:22:08 +0100
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Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS
It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS which supports fewer architectures. For now: - mark it's deprecation in the docs - downgrade the containers to build TCG tests only - drop the cross builds from our CI Users with an appropriate toolchain and user-space can still take their chances building it. Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> Reviewed-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Message-Id: <20220914155950.804707-22-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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-rw-r--r--docs/about/build-platforms.rst2
-rw-r--r--docs/about/deprecated.rst13
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
index a2fee53..1c1e7b9 100644
--- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Those hosts are officially supported, with various accelerators:
- Accelerators
* - Arm
- kvm (64 bit only), tcg, xen
- * - MIPS
+ * - MIPS (little endian only)
- kvm, tcg
* - PPC
- kvm, tcg
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index c75a25d..0d1fd44 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -213,6 +213,19 @@ MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM support (since 6.0)
The MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM host and guest support has been removed
from Linux upstream kernel, declare it deprecated.
+Host Architectures
+------------------
+
+BE MIPS (since 7.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''
+
+As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of
+MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our
+cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have
+CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process
+completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are
+still a supported host architecture.
+
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