[PATCH 1/5] buildsys: Remove MIPS cross containers

11 May 2026

As mentioned in commit 269ffaabc84 ("buildsys: Remove support
for 32-bit MIPS hosts"), Debian 13 "Trixie" removed support for
MIPS.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
---
 configure                                     |   1 -
 .gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml              |   6 -
 .gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml                   |   1 -
 .gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml                  |  22 ---
 tests/docker/Makefile.include                 |   1 -
 .../dockerfiles/debian-mips64el-cross.docker  | 187 ------------------
 .../dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker    | 187 ------------------
 tests/lcitool/refresh                         |  12 --
 8 files changed, 417 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mips64el-cross.docker
 delete mode 100644 tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker

diff --git a/configure b/configure
index eea90306728..b6dd797de5b 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1525,7 +1525,6 @@ probe_target_compiler() {
         aarch64_be:aarch64 | \
         armeb:arm | \
         i386:x86_64 | \
-        mips*:mips64 | \
         ppc*:ppc64 | \
         sparc:sparc64 | \
         "$cpu:$cpu")
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml
index 92a7f1c1b47..ab06083d754 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/container-cross.yml
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ loongarch-debian-cross-container:
   variables:
     NAME: debian-loongarch-cross
 
-mips64el-debian-cross-container:
-  extends: .container_job_template
-  stage: containers
-  variables:
-    NAME: debian-mips64el-cross
-
 ppc64el-debian-cross-container:
   extends: .container_job_template
   stage: containers
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
index c8b8e44ad86..515e7382f26 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/containers.yml
@@ -48,7 +48,6 @@ weekly-container-builds:
     - arm64-debian-cross-container
     - hexagon-cross-container
     - loongarch-debian-cross-container
-    - mips64el-debian-cross-container
     - ppc64el-debian-cross-container
     - riscv64-debian-cross-container
     - s390x-debian-cross-container
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
index cf977dfefb1..eaeeb533cee 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.d/crossbuilds.yml
@@ -23,20 +23,6 @@ cross-arm64-kvm-only:
     IMAGE: debian-arm64-cross
     EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS: --disable-tcg --without-default-features
 
-cross-mips64el-system:
-  extends: .cross_system_build_job
-  needs:
-    - job: mips64el-debian-cross-container
-  variables:
-    IMAGE: debian-mips64el-cross
-
-cross-mips64el-user:
-  extends: .cross_user_build_job
-  needs:
-    - job: mips64el-debian-cross-container
-  variables:
-    IMAGE: debian-mips64el-cross
-
 cross-ppc64el-system:
   extends: .cross_system_build_job
   needs:
@@ -95,14 +81,6 @@ cross-s390x-kvm-only:
     IMAGE: debian-s390x-cross
     EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS: --disable-tcg --enable-trace-backends=ftrace
 
-cross-mips64el-kvm-only:
-  extends: .cross_accel_build_job
-  needs:
-    - job: mips64el-debian-cross-container
-  variables:
-    IMAGE: debian-mips64el-cross
-    EXTRA_CONFIGURE_OPTS: --disable-tcg --target-list=mips64el-softmmu
-
 cross-win64-system:
   extends: .cross_system_build_job
   needs:
diff --git a/tests/docker/Makefile.include b/tests/docker/Makefile.include
index df14538c0f5..4725c39807b 100644
--- a/tests/docker/Makefile.include
+++ b/tests/docker/Makefile.include
@@ -94,7 +94,6 @@ endif
 
 # For non-x86 hosts not all cross-compilers have been packaged
 ifneq ($(HOST_ARCH),x86_64)
-DOCKER_PARTIAL_IMAGES += debian-mipsel-cross debian-mips64el-cross
 DOCKER_PARTIAL_IMAGES += debian-ppc64el-cross
 DOCKER_PARTIAL_IMAGES += debian-s390x-cross
 DOCKER_PARTIAL_IMAGES += fedora
diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mips64el-cross.docker b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mips64el-cross.docker
deleted file mode 100644
index 90a2ef15574..00000000000
--- a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mips64el-cross.docker
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,187 +0,0 @@
-# THIS FILE WAS AUTO-GENERATED
-#
-#  $ lcitool dockerfile --layers all --cross-arch mips64el debian-12 qemu
-#
-# https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci
-
-FROM docker.io/library/debian:12-slim
-
-RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
-    apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y eatmydata && \
-    eatmydata apt-get dist-upgrade -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
-                      bash \
-                      bc \
-                      bindgen \
-                      bison \
-                      bsdextrautils \
-                      bzip2 \
-                      ca-certificates \
-                      ccache \
-                      coreutils \
-                      dbus \
-                      debianutils \
-                      diffutils \
-                      exuberant-ctags \
-                      findutils \
-                      flex \
-                      gcc \
-                      gcovr \
-                      gettext \
-                      git \
-                      hostname \
-                      libclang-rt-dev \
-                      libglib2.0-dev \
-                      llvm \
-                      locales \
-                      make \
-                      mtools \
-                      ninja-build \
-                      openssh-client \
-                      pkgconf \
-                      python3 \
-                      python3-numpy \
-                      python3-opencv \
-                      python3-pillow \
-                      python3-pip \
-                      python3-setuptools \
-                      python3-sphinx \
-                      python3-sphinx-rtd-theme \
-                      python3-venv \
-                      python3-wheel \
-                      python3-yaml \
-                      rpm2cpio \
-                      rustc-web \
-                      sed \
-                      socat \
-                      sparse \
-                      swtpm \
-                      tar \
-                      tesseract-ocr \
-                      tesseract-ocr-eng \
-                      vulkan-tools \
-                      xorriso \
-                      zstd && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoremove -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoclean -y && \
-    sed -Ei 's,^# (en_US\.UTF-8 .*)$,\1,' /etc/locale.gen && \
-    dpkg-reconfigure locales && \
-    rm -f /usr/lib*/python3*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
-
-RUN /usr/bin/pip3 install meson==1.8.1
-
-ENV CCACHE_WRAPPERSDIR="/usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers"
-ENV LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
-ENV MAKE="/usr/bin/make"
-ENV NINJA="/usr/bin/ninja"
-ENV PYTHON="/usr/bin/python3"
-
-RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
-    dpkg --add-architecture mips64el && \
-    eatmydata apt-get update && \
-    eatmydata apt-get dist-upgrade -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y dpkg-dev && \
-    eatmydata apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
-                      gcc-mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 \
-                      libaio-dev:mips64el \
-                      libasound2-dev:mips64el \
-                      libattr1-dev:mips64el \
-                      libbpf-dev:mips64el \
-                      libbrlapi-dev:mips64el \
-                      libbz2-dev:mips64el \
-                      libc6-dev:mips64el \
-                      libcacard-dev:mips64el \
-                      libcap-ng-dev:mips64el \
-                      libcapstone-dev:mips64el \
-                      libcbor-dev:mips64el \
-                      libcmocka-dev:mips64el \
-                      libcurl4-gnutls-dev:mips64el \
-                      libdaxctl-dev:mips64el \
-                      libdrm-dev:mips64el \
-                      libepoxy-dev:mips64el \
-                      libfdt-dev:mips64el \
-                      libffi-dev:mips64el \
-                      libfuse3-dev:mips64el \
-                      libgbm-dev:mips64el \
-                      libgcrypt20-dev:mips64el \
-                      libglib2.0-dev:mips64el \
-                      libglusterfs-dev:mips64el \
-                      libgnutls28-dev:mips64el \
-                      libgtk-3-dev:mips64el \
-                      libgtk-vnc-2.0-dev:mips64el \
-                      libibverbs-dev:mips64el \
-                      libiscsi-dev:mips64el \
-                      libjemalloc-dev:mips64el \
-                      libjpeg62-turbo-dev:mips64el \
-                      libjson-c-dev:mips64el \
-                      liblttng-ust-dev:mips64el \
-                      liblzo2-dev:mips64el \
-                      libncursesw5-dev:mips64el \
-                      libnfs-dev:mips64el \
-                      libnuma-dev:mips64el \
-                      libpam0g-dev:mips64el \
-                      libpcre2-dev:mips64el \
-                      libpipewire-0.3-dev:mips64el \
-                      libpixman-1-dev:mips64el \
-                      libpng-dev:mips64el \
-                      libpulse-dev:mips64el \
-                      librbd-dev:mips64el \
-                      librdmacm-dev:mips64el \
-                      libsasl2-dev:mips64el \
-                      libsdl2-dev:mips64el \
-                      libsdl2-image-dev:mips64el \
-                      libseccomp-dev:mips64el \
-                      libselinux1-dev:mips64el \
-                      libslirp-dev:mips64el \
-                      libsnappy-dev:mips64el \
-                      libsndio-dev:mips64el \
-                      libspice-protocol-dev:mips64el \
-                      libspice-server-dev:mips64el \
-                      libssh-dev:mips64el \
-                      libstd-rust-dev:mips64el \
-                      libsystemd-dev:mips64el \
-                      libtasn1-6-dev:mips64el \
-                      libudev-dev:mips64el \
-                      liburing-dev:mips64el \
-                      libusb-1.0-0-dev:mips64el \
-                      libusbredirhost-dev:mips64el \
-                      libvdeplug-dev:mips64el \
-                      libvirglrenderer-dev:mips64el \
-                      libvte-2.91-dev:mips64el \
-                      libxdp-dev:mips64el \
-                      libzstd-dev:mips64el \
-                      nettle-dev:mips64el \
-                      systemtap-sdt-dev:mips64el \
-                      zlib1g-dev:mips64el && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoremove -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoclean -y && \
-    mkdir -p /usr/local/share/meson/cross && \
-    printf "[binaries]\n\
-c = '/usr/bin/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-gcc'\n\
-ar = '/usr/bin/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-gcc-ar'\n\
-strip = '/usr/bin/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-strip'\n\
-pkgconfig = '/usr/bin/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-pkg-config'\n\
-\n\
-[host_machine]\n\
-system = 'linux'\n\
-cpu_family = 'mips64'\n\
-cpu = 'mips64el'\n\
-endian = 'little'\n" > /usr/local/share/meson/cross/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64 && \
-    dpkg-query --showformat '${Package}_${Version}_${Architecture}\n' --show > /packages.txt && \
-    mkdir -p /usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers && \
-    ln -s /usr/bin/ccache /usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-cc && \
-    ln -s /usr/bin/ccache /usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers/mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-gcc
-
-ENV ABI="mips64el-linux-gnuabi64"
-ENV MESON_OPTS="--cross-file=mips64el-linux-gnuabi64"
-ENV RUST_TARGET="mips64el-unknown-linux-gnuabi64"
-ENV QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--cross-prefix=mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-
-ENV DEF_TARGET_LIST=mips64el-softmmu,mips64el-linux-user
-# As a final step configure the user (if env is defined)
-ARG USER
-ARG UID
-RUN if [ "${USER}" ]; then \
-  id ${USER} 2>/dev/null || useradd -u ${UID} -U ${USER}; fi
-
-ENV ENABLE_RUST 1
diff --git a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker b/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker
deleted file mode 100644
index b7e36b3d974..00000000000
--- a/tests/docker/dockerfiles/debian-mipsel-cross.docker
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,187 +0,0 @@
-# THIS FILE WAS AUTO-GENERATED
-#
-#  $ lcitool dockerfile --layers all --cross-arch mipsel debian-12 qemu
-#
-# https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt-ci
-
-FROM docker.io/library/debian:12-slim
-
-RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
-    apt-get update && \
-    apt-get install -y eatmydata && \
-    eatmydata apt-get dist-upgrade -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
-                      bash \
-                      bc \
-                      bindgen \
-                      bison \
-                      bsdextrautils \
-                      bzip2 \
-                      ca-certificates \
-                      ccache \
-                      coreutils \
-                      dbus \
-                      debianutils \
-                      diffutils \
-                      exuberant-ctags \
-                      findutils \
-                      flex \
-                      gcc \
-                      gcovr \
-                      gettext \
-                      git \
-                      hostname \
-                      libclang-rt-dev \
-                      libglib2.0-dev \
-                      llvm \
-                      locales \
-                      make \
-                      mtools \
-                      ninja-build \
-                      openssh-client \
-                      pkgconf \
-                      python3 \
-                      python3-numpy \
-                      python3-opencv \
-                      python3-pillow \
-                      python3-pip \
-                      python3-setuptools \
-                      python3-sphinx \
-                      python3-sphinx-rtd-theme \
-                      python3-venv \
-                      python3-wheel \
-                      python3-yaml \
-                      rpm2cpio \
-                      rustc-web \
-                      sed \
-                      socat \
-                      sparse \
-                      swtpm \
-                      tar \
-                      tesseract-ocr \
-                      tesseract-ocr-eng \
-                      vulkan-tools \
-                      xorriso \
-                      zstd && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoremove -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoclean -y && \
-    sed -Ei 's,^# (en_US\.UTF-8 .*)$,\1,' /etc/locale.gen && \
-    dpkg-reconfigure locales && \
-    rm -f /usr/lib*/python3*/EXTERNALLY-MANAGED
-
-RUN /usr/bin/pip3 install meson==1.8.1
-
-ENV CCACHE_WRAPPERSDIR="/usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers"
-ENV LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
-ENV MAKE="/usr/bin/make"
-ENV NINJA="/usr/bin/ninja"
-ENV PYTHON="/usr/bin/python3"
-
-RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
-    dpkg --add-architecture mipsel && \
-    eatmydata apt-get update && \
-    eatmydata apt-get dist-upgrade -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y dpkg-dev && \
-    eatmydata apt-get install --no-install-recommends -y \
-                      gcc-mipsel-linux-gnu \
-                      libaio-dev:mipsel \
-                      libasound2-dev:mipsel \
-                      libattr1-dev:mipsel \
-                      libbpf-dev:mipsel \
-                      libbrlapi-dev:mipsel \
-                      libbz2-dev:mipsel \
-                      libc6-dev:mipsel \
-                      libcacard-dev:mipsel \
-                      libcap-ng-dev:mipsel \
-                      libcapstone-dev:mipsel \
-                      libcbor-dev:mipsel \
-                      libcmocka-dev:mipsel \
-                      libcurl4-gnutls-dev:mipsel \
-                      libdaxctl-dev:mipsel \
-                      libdrm-dev:mipsel \
-                      libepoxy-dev:mipsel \
-                      libfdt-dev:mipsel \
-                      libffi-dev:mipsel \
-                      libfuse3-dev:mipsel \
-                      libgbm-dev:mipsel \
-                      libgcrypt20-dev:mipsel \
-                      libglib2.0-dev:mipsel \
-                      libglusterfs-dev:mipsel \
-                      libgnutls28-dev:mipsel \
-                      libgtk-3-dev:mipsel \
-                      libgtk-vnc-2.0-dev:mipsel \
-                      libibverbs-dev:mipsel \
-                      libiscsi-dev:mipsel \
-                      libjemalloc-dev:mipsel \
-                      libjpeg62-turbo-dev:mipsel \
-                      libjson-c-dev:mipsel \
-                      liblttng-ust-dev:mipsel \
-                      liblzo2-dev:mipsel \
-                      libncursesw5-dev:mipsel \
-                      libnfs-dev:mipsel \
-                      libnuma-dev:mipsel \
-                      libpam0g-dev:mipsel \
-                      libpcre2-dev:mipsel \
-                      libpipewire-0.3-dev:mipsel \
-                      libpixman-1-dev:mipsel \
-                      libpng-dev:mipsel \
-                      libpulse-dev:mipsel \
-                      librbd-dev:mipsel \
-                      librdmacm-dev:mipsel \
-                      libsasl2-dev:mipsel \
-                      libsdl2-dev:mipsel \
-                      libsdl2-image-dev:mipsel \
-                      libseccomp-dev:mipsel \
-                      libselinux1-dev:mipsel \
-                      libslirp-dev:mipsel \
-                      libsnappy-dev:mipsel \
-                      libsndio-dev:mipsel \
-                      libspice-protocol-dev:mipsel \
-                      libspice-server-dev:mipsel \
-                      libssh-dev:mipsel \
-                      libstd-rust-dev:mipsel \
-                      libsystemd-dev:mipsel \
-                      libtasn1-6-dev:mipsel \
-                      libudev-dev:mipsel \
-                      liburing-dev:mipsel \
-                      libusb-1.0-0-dev:mipsel \
-                      libusbredirhost-dev:mipsel \
-                      libvdeplug-dev:mipsel \
-                      libvirglrenderer-dev:mipsel \
-                      libvte-2.91-dev:mipsel \
-                      libxdp-dev:mipsel \
-                      libzstd-dev:mipsel \
-                      nettle-dev:mipsel \
-                      systemtap-sdt-dev:mipsel \
-                      zlib1g-dev:mipsel && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoremove -y && \
-    eatmydata apt-get autoclean -y && \
-    mkdir -p /usr/local/share/meson/cross && \
-    printf "[binaries]\n\
-c = '/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc'\n\
-ar = '/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc-ar'\n\
-strip = '/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-gnu-strip'\n\
-pkgconfig = '/usr/bin/mipsel-linux-gnu-pkg-config'\n\
-\n\
-[host_machine]\n\
-system = 'linux'\n\
-cpu_family = 'mips'\n\
-cpu = 'mipsel'\n\
-endian = 'little'\n" > /usr/local/share/meson/cross/mipsel-linux-gnu && \
-    dpkg-query --showformat '${Package}_${Version}_${Architecture}\n' --show > /packages.txt && \
-    mkdir -p /usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers && \
-    ln -s /usr/bin/ccache /usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers/mipsel-linux-gnu-cc && \
-    ln -s /usr/bin/ccache /usr/libexec/ccache-wrappers/mipsel-linux-gnu-gcc
-
-ENV ABI="mipsel-linux-gnu"
-ENV MESON_OPTS="--cross-file=mipsel-linux-gnu"
-ENV RUST_TARGET="mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu"
-ENV QEMU_CONFIGURE_OPTS=--cross-prefix=mipsel-linux-gnu-
-ENV DEF_TARGET_LIST=mipsel-softmmu,mipsel-linux-user
-# As a final step configure the user (if env is defined)
-ARG USER
-ARG UID
-RUN if [ "${USER}" ]; then \
-  id ${USER} 2>/dev/null || useradd -u ${UID} -U ${USER}; fi
-
-ENV ENABLE_RUST 1
diff --git a/tests/lcitool/refresh b/tests/lcitool/refresh
index e4d01d792b7..33cbad2ac29 100755
--- a/tests/lcitool/refresh
+++ b/tests/lcitool/refresh
@@ -263,18 +263,6 @@ try:
                         trailer=cross_build("i686-linux-gnu-",
                                             "i386-softmmu,i386-linux-user"))
 
-    # mips no longer supported in debian-13
-    # https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/issues.html#mips-archit...
-    generate_dockerfile("debian-mips64el-cross", "debian-12",
-                        cross="mips64el",
-                        trailer=cross_build("mips64el-linux-gnuabi64-",
-                                            "mips64el-softmmu,mips64el-linux-user"))
-
-    generate_dockerfile("debian-mipsel-cross", "debian-12",
-                        cross="mipsel",
-                        trailer=cross_build("mipsel-linux-gnu-",
-                                            "mipsel-softmmu,mipsel-linux-user"))
-
     generate_dockerfile("debian-ppc64el-cross", "debian-13",
                         cross="ppc64le",
                         trailer=cross_build("powerpc64le-linux-gnu-",
-- 
2.53.0

    