Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 16/9/22 12:22, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote:
> > Le 16/09/2022 à 10:38, Richard Henderson a écrit :

> > > We are not intending to *remove* support for big-endian mips, as 99% of the 
> > > code paths are
> > > shared with little-endian mips, which we can continue to test.  But we are now 
> > > saying that
> > > big-endian mips is not "supported" and might break.
> >
> >    Thank you for your answer and the clarifications!
>
> In practical terms the lack of CI means that we can't guarantee that a
> new QEMU release will compile successfully. We're handing off responsbility
> for keeping it working to any interested users to do adhoc testing of their
> own. We can still accept bug reports & patches when people discover problems.

Indeed. This is the situation of (host) HPPA. 3 people still build QEMU 
tools on it and report (build system) bugs from time to time, or send 
patches.