Deprecate our Unicore32 target support:
* the Linux kernel dropped support for unicore32 in commit
05119217a9bd199c for its 5.9 release (with rationale in the
cover letter: https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/8/3/232 )
* there is apparently no upstream toolchain that can create unicore32
binaries
* the maintainer doesn't seem to have made any contributions to
QEMU since the port first landed in 2012
* nobody else seems to have made changes to the unicore code except
for generic cleanups either
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
We last considered this back in 2018, but in the end both QEMU
and the kernel gave the port a stay of execution; the maintenance
situation doesn't seem to have improved, and now the kernel has
dropped support and especially given the lack of a toolchain
I think it's time to start the deprecation process here.
---
docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index 851dbdeb8ab..4c52098c707 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -416,6 +416,14 @@ The above, converted to the current supported format::
linux-user mode CPUs
--------------------
+``unicore32`` CPUs (since 5.2.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``unicore32`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in
+a future version of QEMU. Support for this CPU was removed from the
+upstream Linux kernel, and there is no available upstream toolchain
+to build binaries for it.
+
``tilegx`` CPUs (since 5.1.0)
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
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