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diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 2fa2c47b68..aa300bbd50 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -68,19 +68,6 @@ 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. - QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands ------------------------------------ @@ -236,27 +223,6 @@ 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 -------------------- diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 2d3a684e53..a5338e44c2 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -560,6 +560,18 @@ the options along with the machine models they were intended for. Use ``-run-with user=..`` instead. +``-old-param`` option for booting Arm kernels via param_struct (removed in 10.2) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``-old-param`` command line option was specific to Arm targets: +it was 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 removed. + User-mode emulator command line arguments ----------------------------------------- @@ -1138,6 +1150,20 @@ reason the maintainers strongly suspected no one actually used it. QEMU Nios II architecture was orphan; Intel has EOL'ed the Nios II processor IP (see `Intel discontinuance notification`_). +iwMMXt emulation and the ``pxa`` CPUs (removed in 10.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``pxa`` CPU family (``pxa250``, ``pxa255``, ``pxa260``, +``pxa261``, ``pxa262``, ``pxa270-a0``, ``pxa270-a1``, ``pxa270``, +``pxa270-b0``, ``pxa270-b1``, ``pxa270-c0``, ``pxa270-c5``) were +not available in system emulation, because all the machine types which +used these CPUs were removed in the QEMU 9.2 release. We don't +believe that anybody was using the iwMMXt emulation (which you +would have to explicitly enable on the command line), and we did +not have any tests to validate it or any real hardware or similar +known-good implementation to test against. These CPUs have +therefore been removed in linux-user mode as well. + TCG introspection features -------------------------- |