Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

2020-12-30 Thread Peter Maydell
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 at 10:38, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 26/12/2020 10.06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > I mean, the whole point of an emulator is being able to run existing code > > on modern hardware, > > usually because the old hardware is no longer available. And as long as the > >

Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

2020-12-29 Thread Thomas Huth
On 26/12/2020 10.06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! On 12/26/20 9:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: the problem is not that the target CPU is old, but rather that according to the (former?) maintainer, there are no users left:

Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

2020-12-26 Thread Michael Walle
Hi, Am 2020-12-26 10:06, schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz: Hello! On 12/26/20 9:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: the problem is not that the target CPU is old, but rather that according to the (former?) maintainer, there are no users left:

Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

2020-12-26 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! On 12/26/20 9:39 AM, Thomas Huth wrote: > the problem is not that the target CPU is old, but rather that according to > the (former?) maintainer, there are no users left: > > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg605024.html > > So it got marked as deprecated in this

Re: Deprecation of the LM32 target

2020-12-26 Thread Thomas Huth
On 24/12/2020 10.53, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: Hello! I was just browsing through the QEMU Christmas Calendar [1] and noticed the announcement for the deprecation of the LM32 target. I'm not sure what the motivation of the deprecation is, but isn't one of the big selling points of QEMU

Deprecation of the LM32 target

2020-12-24 Thread John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Hello! I was just browsing through the QEMU Christmas Calendar [1] and noticed the announcement for the deprecation of the LM32 target. I'm not sure what the motivation of the deprecation is, but isn't one of the big selling points of QEMU to support deprecated targets? If QEMU eventually ends