From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Stop detecting 32-bit MIPS host as supported, update the
deprecation document. See previous commit for rationale.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20251009195210.33161-8-philmd@linaro.org>
---
configure | 7 -------
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 13 +++++--------
docs/about/removed-features.rst | 6 ++++++
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 461b53dd60..8263f81370 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -404,8 +404,6 @@ elif check_define _ARCH_PPC ; then
elif check_define __mips__ ; then
if check_define __mips64 ; then
cpu="mips64"
- else
- cpu="mips"
fi
elif check_define __s390__ ; then
if check_define __s390x__ ; then
@@ -473,11 +471,6 @@ case "$cpu" in
host_arch=mips
linux_arch=mips
;;
- mips*)
- cpu=mips
- host_arch=mips
- linux_arch=mips
- ;;
ppc)
host_arch=ppc
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 98361f5832..dacf2882e4 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -172,17 +172,14 @@ This argument has always been ignored.
Host Architectures
------------------
-Big endian MIPS since 7.2; 32-bit little endian MIPS since 9.2, MIPS since 11.0
-'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+MIPS (since 11.0)
+'''''''''''''''''
-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
+MIPS is not supported by Debian 13 ("Trixie") and newer, 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.
-Likewise, MIPS is not supported by Debian 13 ("Trixie") and newer.
-
System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts (since 8.0)
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index a5338e44c2..53829f59e6 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -896,6 +896,12 @@ work around the atomicity issues in system mode by running all vCPUs
in a single thread context; in user mode atomicity was simply broken.
From 10.0, QEMU has disabled configuration of 64-bit guests on 32-bit hosts.
+32-bit MIPS (since 11.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Debian 12 "Bookworm" removed support for 32-bit MIPS, making it hard to
+maintain our cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture.
+
Guest Emulator ISAs
-------------------
--
2.43.0