On 2019-11-25 11:41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
The r4k machine was introduced in 2005 (6af0bf9c7) and its last logical change was in 2005 (9542611a6). After we can count 164 maintenance commits (QEMU API changes) with the exception of 1 fix in 2015 (memory leak, commit 3ad9fd5a).
This machine was introduced as a proof of concept to run a MIPS CPU. 2 years later, the Malta machine was add (commit 5856de80) modeling a real platform.
Note also this machine has no specification except 5 lines in the header of this file:
* emulates a simple machine with ISA-like bus. * ISA IO space mapped to the 0x14000000 (PHYS) and * ISA memory at the 0x10000000 (PHYS, 16Mb in size). * All peripherial devices are attached to this "bus" with * the standard PC ISA addresses.
It is time to deprecate this obsolete machine. Users are recommended to use the Malta board, which hardware is well documented.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> --- qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 +++++ hw/mips/mips_r4k.c | 1 + MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
The Linux kernel support for this machine has been dropped more than 10 years ago in this commit: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?i... I therefore think it's time to also drop support for it on the QEMU side. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net