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diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 4a3c302962..4c86620f6d 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -68,6 +68,19 @@ configurations (e.g. -smp drawers=1,books=1,clusters=1 for x86 PC machine) is marked deprecated since 9.0, users have to ensure that all the topology members described with -smp are supported by the target machine. +``-old-param`` option for booting Arm kernels via param_struct (since 10.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``-old-param`` command line option is specific to Arm targets: +it is used when directly booting a guest kernel to pass it the +command line and other information via the old ``param_struct`` ABI, +rather than the newer ATAGS or DTB mechanisms. This option was only +ever needed to support ancient kernels on some old board types +like the ``akita`` or ``terrier``; it has been deprecated in the +kernel since 2001. None of the board types QEMU supports need +``param_struct`` support, so this option has been deprecated and will +be removed in a future QEMU version. + User-mode emulator command line arguments ----------------------------------------- @@ -204,6 +217,34 @@ is going to be so much slower it wouldn't make sense for any serious instrumentation. Due to implementation differences there will also be anomalies in things like memory instrumentation. +32-bit host operating systems (since 10.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +Keeping 32-bit host support alive is a substantial burden for the +QEMU project. Thus QEMU will in future drop the support for all +32-bit host systems. + +linux-user mode CPUs +-------------------- + +iwMMXt emulation and the ``pxa`` CPUs (since 10.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``pxa`` CPU family (``pxa250``, ``pxa255``, ``pxa260``, +``pxa261``, ``pxa262``, ``pxa270-a0``, ``pxa270-a1``, ``pxa270``, +``pxa270-b0``, ``pxa270-b1``, ``pxa270-c0``, ``pxa270-c5``) are no +longer used in system emulation, because all the machine types which +used these CPUs were removed in the QEMU 9.2 release. These CPUs can +now only be used in linux-user mode, and to do that you would have to +explicitly select one of these CPUs with the ``-cpu`` command line +option or the ``QEMU_CPU`` environment variable. + +We don't believe that anybody is using the iwMMXt emulation, and we do +not have any tests to validate it or any real hardware or similar +known-good implementation to test against. GCC is in the process of +dropping their support for iwMMXt codegen. These CPU types are +therefore deprecated in QEMU, and will be removed in a future release. + System emulator CPUs -------------------- |