Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz]

Hello!

On 12/26/20 9:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure how you determine whether there are people using the code or not. 
There
is no really user tracking in QEMU, is there?

And the maintainer's claim that RISC-V takes over makes no sense either. The 
point of
emulators is to be able to run old and existing software. If a target had only a
justification to exist while it's commercially viable, you would have to remove 
90%
of the targets in QEMU.

I mean, the whole point of an emulator is being able to run existing code on 
modern hardware,
usually because the old hardware is no longer available. And as long as the 
target is
functional, I don't see a point in taking away the functionality.

Adrian

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