Re: [PATCH v2] Revert "target/mips: Deprecate nanoMIPS ISA"

[Richard Henderson]

On 4/8/21 10:01 AM, Aleksandar Rikalo 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 
> <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 
> <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>
> Signed-off-by: Aleksandar Rikalo <Aleksandar.Rikalo@Syrmia.com>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS                |  4 ----
>   docs/system/deprecated.rst | 20 --------------------
>   2 files changed, 24 deletions(-)

NACK, for the reasons stated against v1:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-04/msg00663.html

We're not going to remove nanomips this cycle, but we're not going to reset the 
clock on deprecation either.


r~