From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>

There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
do new work on that.

Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 47a594a3b6..3a0e15f8f5 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -454,3 +454,17 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
 
 The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
 As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+virtiofsd
+'''''''''
+
+There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofs`` at
+``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
+since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
+rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
+The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
+are already in development for the moment.
+
-- 
2.34.1

On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 16:57, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
<dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
>
> There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
> do new work on that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> ---
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 47a594a3b6..3a0e15f8f5 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -454,3 +454,17 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
>
>  The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
>  As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
> +
> +Tools
> +-----
> +
> +virtiofsd
> +'''''''''
> +
> +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofs`` at

I guess there's a missing "d" here ?

> +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
> +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
> +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
> +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
> +are already in development for the moment.

thanks
-- PMM

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2022 at 16:57, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)
> <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> >
> > There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
> > do new work on that.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> > ---
> >  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> > index 47a594a3b6..3a0e15f8f5 100644
> > --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> > +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> > @@ -454,3 +454,17 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
> >
> >  The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
> >  As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
> > +
> > +Tools
> > +-----
> > +
> > +virtiofsd
> > +'''''''''
> > +
> > +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofs`` at
> 
> I guess there's a missing "d" here ?

Oops yes, can add that.

Dave

> > +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
> > +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
> > +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
> > +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
> > +are already in development for the moment.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
-- 
Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK

On Wed, Feb 09, 2022 at 04:50:40PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people
> do new work on that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>

Vivek

> ---
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 47a594a3b6..3a0e15f8f5 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -454,3 +454,17 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
>  
>  The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
>  As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
> +
> +Tools
> +-----
> +
> +virtiofsd
> +'''''''''
> +
> +There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofs`` at
> +``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
> +since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
> +rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
> +The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
> +are already in development for the moment.
> +
> -- 
> 2.34.1
>