On 01/02/2024 13.28, Alex Bennée wrote:
This might be premature but while streamling the avocado tests I
s/streamling/streamlining/ ?
realised the only tests we have are "check-tcg" ones. The aging fedora-criss-cross image works well enough for developers but can't be
s/criss/cris/
used in CI as we need supported build platforms to build QEMU.
Does this mean the writing is on the wall for this architecture?
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> Cc: Rabin Vincent <rabinv@axis.com> Cc: Edgar E. Iglesias <edgar.iglesias@xilinx.com> Message-Id: <20230925144854.1872513-5-alex.bennee@linaro.org> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index d4492b94604..82922476d72 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -183,6 +183,14 @@ Nios II CPU (since 8.2) The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU.
+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.
With the typos fixed: Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>