On 11/2/20 12:27 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> The nanoMIPS ISA has been announced in 2018 for various projects:
> 
> GCC:   https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2018-05/msg00012.html
> Linux: https://lwn.net/Articles/753605/
> QEMU:  https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg530721.html
> 
> Unfortunately the links referenced doesn't work anymore (www.mips.com).
> 
> From this Wayback machine link [1] we can get to a working place to
> download a toolchain (a more recent release than the one referenced
> in the announcement mails):
> http://codescape.mips.com/components/toolchain/nanomips/2018.04-02/downloads.html
> 
> The toolchain page mention LLVM but simply links http://llvm.org/
> where there is no reference on nanoMIPS.
> 
> The only reference in the GCC mailing list, is the nanoMIPS
> announcement: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2018-May.txt
> 
> The developer who authored the announcements have been emailed [2]
> to ask for more information but all their emails are now bouncing:
> 
> - Your message to [email protected] couldn't be delivered.
> 
> - Your message to [email protected] couldn't be delivered.
> 
> - Couldn't deliver the message to the following recipients:
>     [email protected], [email protected],
>     [email protected]
> 
> Our deprecation policy do not allow feature removal before 2 release,
> therefore declare the nanoMIPS ISA code deprecated as of QEMU 5.2.
> This gives time to developers to update the QEMU community, or
> interested parties to step in to maintain this code.
> 
> [1] 
> https://web.archive.org/web/20180904044530/https://www.mips.com/develop/tools/compilers/
> [2] https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg756392.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[email protected]>
> ---

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <[email protected]>

r~

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