[PULL 02/10] docs: mark CRIS support as deprecated

Alex Bennée posted 10 patches 7 months ago
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[PULL 02/10] docs: mark CRIS support as deprecated
Posted by Alex Bennée 7 months ago
This might be premature but while streamlining the avocado tests I
realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The ageing
fedora-cris-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?

Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20240207163812.3231697-3-alex.bennee@linaro.org>

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index c7b95e6068e..7b0c59919e5 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -192,6 +192,13 @@ in the QEMU object model anymore. ``power5+``, ``power5+_v2.1``,
 an alias, but for consistency these will get removed in a future
 release, too. Use ``power5p_v2.1`` and ``power7p_v2.1`` instead.
 
+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.
 
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