docs: Document removal of old Arm boards
Now we have removed all the board types that it covers, we can move the text about old Arm boards from deprecated.rst to removed-features.rst, tweaking it appropriately. Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> Message-id: 20240903160751.4100218-37-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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@ -251,21 +251,6 @@ to correct issues, mostly regarding migration compatibility. These are
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no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to
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read and maintain. Use versions 3.0 and above as a replacement.
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Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (since 9.0)
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QEMU includes models of some machine types where the QEMU code that
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emulates their SoCs is very old and unmaintained. This code is now
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blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across
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the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in
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trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have
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a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that
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has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support
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for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also
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dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any
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test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1``
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and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now.
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PPC 405 ``ref405ep`` machine (since 9.1)
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The machine was unmaintained.
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Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (removed in 9.2)
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QEMU included models of some machine types where the QEMU code that
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emulates their SoCs was very old and unmaintained. This code was
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blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across
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the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in
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trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have
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a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that
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has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support
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for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also
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dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any
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test images for it and don't know of anybody who does.
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linux-user mode CPUs
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