Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

[Thomas Huth]

On 24/12/2020 10.53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I was just browsing through the QEMU Christmas Calendar [1] and noticed
> the announcement for the deprecation of the LM32 target.
>
> I'm not sure what the motivation of the deprecation is, but isn't one of
> the big selling points of QEMU to support deprecated targets?
>
> If QEMU eventually ends up supporting commercially available targets only
> and kicking out everything that is obsolete, I'm not sure what the point
> of QEMU would be in the first place as products like VMWare and VirtualBox
> already provide virtualization functionality.
>
> Please don't deprecate targets just because they're old.

 Hi,

the problem is not that the target CPU is old, but rather that according to 
the (former?) maintainer, there are no users left:

 https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg605024.html

So it got marked as deprecated in this commit here:

 https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=d84980051229fa43c96b3

Without maintainer and without users, there is no point in keeping this 
target, is there?

 Thomas