Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 10/27/21 12:42, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Le 27/10/2021 à 10:40, Cédric Le Goater a écrit :
>>>>> I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state
>>>>> since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep
>>>>> it functional. However, since no toolchain reached mainstream GCC/LLVM
>>>>> it is not easy to maintain. By keeping it in that state we give some
>>>>> time to other communities to have their toolchain upstreamed / merged.
>>>>
>>>> If you're trying to keep it functional and aren't going to remove
>>>> it, then it shouldn't be marked deprecated.
>>>
>>> OK, I'll move it back to Odd-fixes.
>>
>> The ppc405 boards are still in pretty bad shape. We need a patched
>> u-boot,
>> a patched QEMU and a patched Linux and still, we do not reach user space
>> without some sort of crash.
>>
> 
> I guess Philippe was talking about the nanoMIPS here.

Yes, I was following the deprecation thread, sorry for the confusion.