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diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 06f8cc1b73..6e96cd067f 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -998,6 +998,20 @@ The Nios II architecture was orphan. The machine was unmaintained. +Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (removed in 9.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +QEMU included models of some machine types where the QEMU code that +emulates their SoCs was very old and unmaintained. This code was +blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across +the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in +trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have +a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that +has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support +for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also +dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any +test images for it and don't know of anybody who does. + linux-user mode CPUs -------------------- |