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

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 05:51:40PM +0100, Alex Bennée wrote:
> It's buggy and we are not sure anyone uses it.
> 
> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>

Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>

> ---
>  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
>  ----------------
>  

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