We couldn't find a way (guest OS with VirtIO drivers) to test a legacy VirtIO device on a ARM vCPU running in big-endian.
Deprecate for the v11.0 release, giving 1 year to users who really care to contribute functional tests. Suggested-by: Alex Bennée <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index ac31a2bce42..3a69facb0f1 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -515,6 +515,17 @@ It was implemented as a no-op instruction in TCG up to QEMU 9.0, but only with ``-cpu max`` (which does not guarantee migration compatibility across versions). +VirtIO devices +'''''''''''''' + +Legacy VirtIO devices on Big-Endian ARM architecture (since 11.0) +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ + +There are no functional tests for legacy virtio devices used by ARM +machines running in big-endian order, which makes harder to maintain +the code path while the code base evolve. + + Backwards compatibility ----------------------- -- 2.52.0
