configure, meson: deprecate 32-bit MIPS

Commit Message

Paolo Bonzini Oct. 27, 2024, 1:07 p.m. UTC

The mipsel architecture is not available in Debian Bookworm, and it will
likely be a hard failure as soon as we drop support for the old Rust
toolchain in Debian Bullseye.  Prepare by deprecating 32-bit little
endian MIPS in QEMU 9.2.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <[e-mail]>
---
 docs/about/build-platforms.rst |  2 +-
 docs/about/deprecated.rst      | 12 ++++++++----
 meson.build                    |  8 ++++++++
 3 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Comments

Michael Tokarev Oct. 27, 2024, 1:16 p.m. UTC | #1

27.10.2024 16:07, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The mipsel architecture is not available in Debian Bookworm, and it will
> likely be a hard failure as soon as we drop support for the old Rust
> toolchain in Debian Bullseye.  Prepare by deprecating 32-bit little
> endian MIPS in QEMU 9.2.

Correction. mipsel *is* available in debian bookworm, it is the last release
of debian which has mipsel.  It's been removed from trixie, the *next* debian
release.  Basically, s/Bookworm/Trixie/ s/Bullseye/Bookworm/.

(it's the rust-web which is not available FOR BOOKWORM, because of no upstream
support from rust people)

Thanks,

/mjt

Patch

diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
index ff56091078e..6102f00aec0 100644
--- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
+++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@  Those hosts are officially supported, with various accelerators:
      - Accelerators
    * - Arm
      - kvm (64 bit only), tcg, xen
-   * - MIPS (little endian only)
+   * - MIPS (64 bit little endian only)
      - kvm, tcg
    * - PPC
      - kvm, tcg
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 74c75666c31..32b4cd16ec3 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -170,15 +170,19 @@  property types.
 Host Architectures
 ------------------
 
-BE MIPS (since 7.2)
-'''''''''''''''''''
+32-bit MIPS (big endian since 7.2; little endian since 9.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
 As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of
 MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our
 cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have
 CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process
-completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are
-still a supported host architecture.
+completes.
+
+Likewise, the little endian variant of 32 bit MIPS is not supported by
+Debian 13 ("Trixie") and newer.
+
+64 bit little endian MIPS is still a supported host architecture.
 
 System emulation on 32-bit x86 hosts (since 8.0)
 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f5df5cdc49f..e69287acfc5 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -4807,6 +4807,14 @@  if host_arch == 'unknown'
     message('configure has succeeded and you can continue to build, but')
     message('QEMU will use a slow interpreter to emulate the target CPU.')
   endif
+elif host_arch == 'mips'
+  message()
+  warning('DEPRECATED HOST CPU')
+  message()
+  message('Support for CPU host architecture ' + cpu + ' is going to be')
+  message('dropped as soon as the QEMU project stops supporting Debian 12')
+  message('("Bookworm"). Going forward, the QEMU project will not guarantee')
+  message('that QEMU will compile or work on this host CPU.')
 endif
 
 if not supported_oses.contains(host_os)