Re: [PATCH] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA"

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 6 Apr 2021 at 15:53, Filip Vidojevic <Filip.Vidojevic@syrmia.com> wrote:
>
> NanoMIPS ISA is supported again, since mediaTek is taking over
> nanoMIPS toolchain development (confirmed at
> https://www.spinics.net/linux/fedora/libvir/msg217107.html).
>
> New release of the toolchain can be found at
> (https://github.com/MediaTek-Labs/nanomips-gnu-toolchain/releases/tag/nanoMIPS-2021.02-01).
>
> Reverting deprecation of nanoMIPS ISA requires following changes:
>         MAINTAINERS: remove nanoMIPS ISA from orphaned ISAs
>         deprecated.rst: remove nanoMIPS ISA from deprecated ISAs
>
> Signed-off-by: Filip Vidojevic <Filip.Vidojevic@Syrmia.com>
> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                |   4 -
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 251 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  2 files changed, 235 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index 69003cdc3c..498dbf0ae4 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -254,10 +254,6 @@ F: include/hw/timer/mips_gictimer.h
>  F: tests/tcg/mips/
>  K: ^Subject:.*(?i)mips
>
> -MIPS TCG CPUs (nanoMIPS ISA)
> -S: Orphan
> -F: disas/nanomips.*
> -
>  Moxie TCG CPUs
>  M: Anthony Green <green@moxielogic.com>
>  S: Maintained
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 80cae86252..88b35a43da 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -228,12 +228,20 @@ to build binaries for it.
>  ``Icelake-Client`` CPU Models are deprecated. Use ``Icelake-Server`` CPU
>  Models instead.
>
> -MIPS ``I7200`` CPU Model (since 5.2)
> -''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +System emulator devices
> +-----------------------
> +
> +``ide-drive`` (since 4.2)
> +'''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The 'ide-drive' device is deprecated. Users should use 'ide-hd' or
> +'ide-cd' as appropriate to get an IDE hard disk or CD-ROM as needed.

[etc]

Something has gone wrong with your reversion of the changes to
deprecated.rst -- they should not be inserting 235 lines unrelated
to MIPS...

thanks
-- PMM