Re: [RFC PATCH] docs/system/deprecated: mark ppc64abi32-linux-user for deprecation

It's buggy and we are not sure anyone uses it. Cc: David Gibson <david(a)gibson.dropbear.id.au&gt; Cc: Richard Henderson <rth(a)twiddle.net&gt; Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee(a)linaro.org&gt;

--- docs/system/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst index 851dbdeb8ab..11c763383d9 100644 --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst @@ -424,6 +424,15 @@ linux-user mode) is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU. Support for this CPU was removed from the upstream Linux kernel in 2018, and has also been dropped from glibc. +``ppc64abi32`` CPUs (since 5.2.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``ppc64abi32`` architecture has a number of issues which regularly +trip up our CI testing and is suspected to be quite broken. +Furthermore the maintainers are unsure what the correct behaviour +should be and strongly suspect no one actually uses it. + + Related binaries ----------------