This might be premature but while streamling the avocado tests I
realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The aging
fedora-criss-cross image works well enough for developers but can't be
used in CI as we need supported build platforms to build QEMU.

Does this mean the writing is on the wall for this architecture?

Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
Message-Id: <20230925144854.1872513-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index d4492b94604..82922476d72 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ Nios II CPU (since 8.2)
 The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is
 deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU.
 
+CRIS CPU architecture (since 9.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The CRIS architecture was pulled from Linux in 4.17 and the compiler
+is no longer packaged in any distro making it harder to run the
+``check-tcg`` tests. Unless we can improve the testing situation there
+is a chance the code will bitrot without anyone noticing.
+
 
 System emulator machines
 ------------------------
-- 
2.39.2

On 01/02/2024 13.28, Alex Bennée wrote:
> This might be premature but while streamling the avocado tests I

s/streamling/streamlining/ ?

> realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The aging
> fedora-criss-cross image works well enough for developers but can't be

s/criss/cris/

> used in CI as we need supported build platforms to build QEMU.
> 
> Does this mean the writing is on the wall for this architecture?
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
> Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com>
> Message-Id: <20230925144854.1872513-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org>
> ---
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index d4492b94604..82922476d72 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ Nios II CPU (since 8.2)
>   The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is
>   deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU.
>   
> +CRIS CPU architecture (since 9.0)
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The CRIS architecture was pulled from Linux in 4.17 and the compiler
> +is no longer packaged in any distro making it harder to run the
> +``check-tcg`` tests. Unless we can improve the testing situation there
> +is a chance the code will bitrot without anyone noticing.

With the typos fixed:
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>