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From: | Bastian Koppelmann |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecate tilegx ? |
Date: | Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:18:54 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.2 |
On 03/09/2018 04:13 PM, Alex Bennée wrote:
Bastian Koppelmann <address@hidden> writes:
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I always saw it as a big plus that QEMU supports nearly any architecture, no matter how obscure it is. So I'm a bit more hesitant on dropping architectures quickly.All things being equal I agree, however there is a maintenance burden for the QEMU upstream, especially if the only active use if on out-of-tree branches or behind the closed doors of research groups. Looking at https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/TileGX it doesn't give much of an idea of where I would get toolchains to build guest binaries or what guest user-space I could run.
I'm not saying, we shouldn't drop them. To me it felt like we brought just another target to the chop block while we were at it.
Maybe a good approach is to deprecate the target first, then ask if somebody else is willing to maintain it, and if this fails, drop it.
Cheers, Bastian
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