Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-28 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 28/10/2021 à 14:24, Luis Machado a écrit : On 10/20/21 10:16 AM, LEROY Christophe wrote: Le 20/10/2021 à 14:43, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-28 Thread Luis Machado
On 10/20/21 10:16 AM, LEROY Christophe wrote: Le 20/10/2021 à 14:43, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2021,

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-27 Thread Cédric Le Goater
Hello Christophe, On 10/27/21 12:42, Christophe Leroy wrote: Hi Cédric, Le 27/10/2021 à 10:40, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep it functional. However, since no

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-27 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 10/27/21 12:42, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Le 27/10/2021 à 10:40, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : > I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state > since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep > it functional. However, since no toolchain rea

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-27 Thread Christophe Leroy
Hi Cédric, Le 27/10/2021 à 10:40, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep it functional. However, since no toolchain reached mainstream GCC/LLVM it is not easy to mainta

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-27 Thread Cédric Le Goater
I am raising this because the nanoMIPS support is in deprecated state since more than 2 releases, but it is still in-tree and I try to keep it functional. However, since no toolchain reached mainstream GCC/LLVM it is not easy to maintain. By keeping it in that state we give some time to other comm

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-26 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 10/5/21 18:20, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:15:35PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> On 10/5/21 10:49, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: >>> On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:44:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >> I will look at it, please allow me a few weeks though. >

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 20/10/2021 à 15:16, Christophe Leroy a écrit : Le 20/10/2021 à 14:43, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread Simon Marchi
On 2021-10-20 9:16 a.m., LEROY Christophe wrote: > And GDB 11.1 coredumps while reading vmlinux's symbols > > Hopefully I'll find a GDB version between 7.8 and 11 that works. That's not cool. Could you file a bug for it? If you could share your vmlinux executable (or steps to re-create it, with

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread BALATON Zoltan
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: I think there are many CPUs in that list which cannot be used with any board, some of them might be also in a very incom

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread LEROY Christophe
Le 20/10/2021 à 14:43, Cédric Le Goater a écrit : > On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >>> On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: > On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >> On 1

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 10/20/21 13:42, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christoph

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread BALATON Zoltan
On Wed, 20 Oct 2021, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, Dav

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-20 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
+Richard On 10/5/21 14:29, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: >>> On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: > Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : >> O

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 10/5/21 10:49, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:44:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: >> I will look at it, please allow me a few weeks though. > > Once something is deprecated, it remains in QEMU for a minimum of two > release cycles, before being deleted. At any time i

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:15:35PM +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 10/5/21 10:49, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:44:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > >> I will look at it, please allow me a few weeks though. > > > > Once something is deprecated, it remain

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Thomas Huth
On 05/10/2021 14.20, BALATON Zoltan wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/1

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread BALATON Zoltan
On Tue, 5 Oct 2021, Cédric Le Goater wrote: On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Tue, Oct 05, 2021 at 06:44:23AM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : > > On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 10/5/21 08:18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit :

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Thomas Huth
On 05/10/2021 10.05, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 17:42, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 08.18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrot

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-05 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 05/10/2021 17:42, Thomas Huth wrote: On 05/10/2021 08.18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote:

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-04 Thread Thomas Huth
On 05/10/2021 08.18, Alexey Kardashevskiy wrote: On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écri

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-04 Thread Alexey Kardashevskiy
On 05/10/2021 15:44, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: O

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-04 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 05/10/2021 à 02:48, David Gibson a écrit : On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote:

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-04 Thread David Gibson
On Fri, Oct 01, 2021 at 04:18:49PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: > > > > > > Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit : > > > On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: > > > > On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote: > > > > > Nevertheless, as

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Thomas Huth
On 01/10/2021 15.04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote: Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty us

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 14:04, Christophe Leroy wrote: > I really would like to be able to use them to validate Linux Kernel > changes, hence looking for that missing BIOS. > > If we remove ppc405 from QEMU, we won't be able to do any regression > tests of Linux Kernel on those processors. Do you (

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 10/1/21 15:04, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote: Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty usele

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 01/10/2021 à 10:35, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 27/09/2021 06.48, David Gibson wrote: There are a nunber of old embedded ppc machine types which have been little changed and in "Odd Fixes" state for a long time.  With both myself and Greg Kurz moving toward other areas, we no longer have the

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Christophe Leroy
Le 01/10/2021 à 14:04, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote: Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I can see, they do

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Thomas Huth
On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote: On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote: Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's also not

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Peter Maydell
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth wrote: > Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that > ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I > can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's also not possible > to use a Linux image with t

Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Thomas Huth
On 01/10/2021 11.14, Christophe Leroy wrote: Le 01/10/2021 à 10:35, Thomas Huth a écrit : On 27/09/2021 06.48, David Gibson wrote: There are a nunber of old embedded ppc machine types which have been little changed and in "Odd Fixes" state for a long time.  With both myself and Greg Kurz movi

Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

2021-10-01 Thread Thomas Huth
On 27/09/2021 06.48, David Gibson wrote: There are a nunber of old embedded ppc machine types which have been little changed and in "Odd Fixes" state for a long time. With both myself and Greg Kurz moving toward other areas, we no longer have the capacity to keep reviewing and maintaining even t