On Mon, Nov 25, 2019 at 11:41 AM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
<phi...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The r4k machine was introduced in 2005 (6af0bf9c7) and its last
> logical change was in 2005 (9542611a6). After we can count 164
> maintenance commits (QEMU API changes) with the exception of
> 1 fix in 2015 (memory leak, commit 3ad9fd5a).
>
> This machine was introduced as a proof of concept to run a MIPS
> CPU. 2 years later, the Malta machine was add (commit 5856de80)
> modeling a real platform.
>
> Note also this machine has no specification except 5 lines in
> the header of this file:
>
> * emulates a simple machine with ISA-like bus.
> * ISA IO space mapped to the 0x14000000 (PHYS) and
> * ISA memory at the 0x10000000 (PHYS, 16Mb in size).
> * All peripherial devices are attached to this "bus" with
> * the standard PC ISA addresses.
>
> It is time to deprecate this obsolete machine. Users are
> recommended to use the Malta board, which hardware is well
> documented.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
> ---
Philippe,
I see you added "libvir-list" in "cc". Was it a mistake, or there was
some purpose?
Yours,
Aleksandar
> qemu-deprecated.texi | 5 +++++
> hw/mips/mips_r4k.c | 1 +
> MAINTAINERS | 2 +-
> 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index 4b4b7425ac..05265b43c8 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -266,6 +266,11 @@ The 'scsi-disk' device is deprecated. Users should use
> 'scsi-hd' or
>
> @section System emulator machines
>
> +@subsection mips r4k platform (since 4.2)
> +
> +This machine type is very old and unmaintained. Users should use the 'malta'
> +machine type instead.
> +
> @subsection pc-0.12, pc-0.13, pc-0.14 and pc-0.15 (since 4.0)
>
> These machine types are very old and likely can not be used for live
> migration
> diff --git a/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c b/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c
> index 70024235ae..0b79ad26cb 100644
> --- a/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c
> +++ b/hw/mips/mips_r4k.c
> @@ -294,6 +294,7 @@ void mips_r4k_init(MachineState *machine)
>
> static void mips_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
> {
> + mc->deprecation_reason = "use malta machine type instead";
> mc->desc = "mips r4k platform";
> mc->init = mips_r4k_init;
> mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 5e5e3e52d6..3b3a88e264 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -972,7 +972,7 @@ F: hw/net/mipsnet.c
> R4000
> M: Aurelien Jarno <aurel...@aurel32.net>
> R: Aleksandar Rikalo <aleksandar.rik...@rt-rk.com>
> -S: Maintained
> +S: Obsolete
> F: hw/mips/mips_r4k.c
>
> Fulong 2E
> --
> 2.21.0
>
>
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