On Mon, 9 Sept 2024 at 14:41, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 3/9/24 18:06, Peter Maydell wrote: > > This patchset removes the various Arm machines which we deprecated > > for the 9.0 release and are therefore allowed to remove for the 9.2 > > release: > > akita, borzoi, cheetah, connex, mainstone, n800, n810, > > spitz, terrier, tosa, verdex, z2 > > > The series includes removal of some code which while not strictly > > specific to these machines was in practice used only by them: > > * the OneNAND flash memory device > > * the PCMCIA subsystem > > * the MUSB USB2.0 OTG USB controller chip (hcd-musb) > > > thanks > > -- PMM > > > > Peter Maydell (53): > > hw/input: Drop ADS7846 device > > hw/adc: Remove MAX111X device > > hw/gpio: Remove MAX7310 device > > hw/input: Remove tsc2005 touchscreen controller > > hw/input: Remove tsc210x device > > hw/rtc: Remove twl92230 device > > hw/input: Remove lm832x device > > hw/usb: Remove tusb6010 USB controller > > hw/usb: Remove MUSB USB host controller > > Some of these devices are user-creatable and only rely on a bus > (not a particular removed machine), so could potentially be used > on other maintained machines which expose a similar bus.
Which ones in particular? Almost all of them are sysbus. At least one of them that I looked at (lm832x) is an I2C device but it also requires the board to wire up a GPIO line and to call a specific C function to inject key events, so it's not actually generally usable. > We don't have in-tree (tests/) examples, but I wonder if it is OK > to remove them without first explicitly deprecating them in > docs/about/deprecated.rst. I wouldn't surprise users when 9.2 is > release. Maybe this isn't an issue, but I prefer to mention it > now to be sure. I think this is unlikely to be a problem, but if you have a specific device you think might be a problem we can look at whether it seems likely (e.g. whether a web search turns up users using it in odd ways). thanks -- PMM
