Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-16 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
On 16/9/22 12:22, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote: Le 16/09/2022 à 10:38, Richard Henderson a écrit : We are not intending to *remove* support for big-endian mips, as 99% of the code paths are shared with little-endian mips, which we ca

Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-16 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Fri, Sep 16, 2022 at 12:10:30PM +0200, Pierre Muller wrote: > > > Le 16/09/2022 à 10:38, Richard Henderson a écrit : > > On 9/16/22 10:08, Pierre Muller wrote: > > > > > >   I am using gcc230 machine for the gcc compile farm. > > > > > >   This is a big endian mips64 machine runnig Debia

Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-16 Thread Alex Bennée
Pierre Muller writes: > I am using gcc230 machine for the gcc compile farm. > > This is a big endian mips64 machine runnig Debian Buster. That's still oldstable, the current release of Debian doesn't support BE mips in either 32 or 64 bit. As bullseye was released last year buster will dro

Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-16 Thread Pierre Muller
Le 16/09/2022 à 10:38, Richard Henderson a écrit : On 9/16/22 10:08, Pierre Muller wrote:   I am using gcc230 machine for the gcc compile farm.   This is a big endian mips64 machine runnig Debian Buster. When compiling the qemu 7.1.0 release source, the generated binaries are 32-bit mi

Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-16 Thread Richard Henderson
On 9/16/22 10:08, Pierre Muller wrote:   I am using gcc230 machine for the gcc compile farm.   This is a big endian mips64 machine runnig Debian Buster. When compiling the qemu 7.1.0 release source, the generated binaries are 32-bit mips binaries, and I did not find out how to generate a 64-

Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-16 Thread Pierre Muller
I am using gcc230 machine for the gcc compile farm. This is a big endian mips64 machine runnig Debian Buster. When compiling the qemu 7.1.0 release source, the generated binaries are 32-bit mips binaries, and I did not find out how to generate a 64-bit versions of the executables. As mi

Re: [PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-15 Thread Richard Henderson
On 9/14/22 16:59, Alex Bennée wrote: It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS which supports fewer architectures. For now: - mark it's deprecation in the docs - downgrade the containers to build T

[PATCH v2 21/30] Deprecate 32 bit big-endian MIPS

2022-09-14 Thread Alex Bennée
It's becoming harder to maintain a cross-compiler to test this host architecture as the old stable Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS which supports fewer architectures. For now: - mark it's deprecation in the docs - downgrade the containers to build TCG tests only - drop the cross builds f