Commit facfc943cb for qemu.org

commit facfc943cb943ae05997a22642334558751c2bdb
Author: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Jan 21 11:36:55 2025 +0100

    hw/mips: Mark the "mipssim" machine as deprecated

    We are not aware of anybody still using this machine, support for it
    has been withdrawn from the Linux kernel (i.e. there also won't be
    any future development anymore), and we are not aware of any binaries
    online that could be used for regression testing to avoid that the
    machine bitrots ... thus let's mark it as deprecated now.

    Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
    Acked-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
    Message-ID: <20250121103655.1285596-1-thuth@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index e2b4f077d4..76291fdfd6 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -292,6 +292,19 @@ Big-Endian variants of MicroBlaze ``petalogix-ml605`` and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` ma
 Both ``petalogix-ml605`` and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` were added for little endian
 CPUs. Big endian support is not tested.

+Mips ``mipssim`` machine (since 10.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+Linux dropped support for this virtual machine type in kernel v3.7, and
+there does not seem to be anybody around who is still using this board
+in QEMU: Most former MIPS-related people are working on other architectures
+in their everyday job nowadays, and we are also not aware of anybody still
+using old binaries with this board (i.e. there is also no binary available
+online to check that this board did not completely bitrot yet). It is
+recommended to use another MIPS machine for future MIPS code development
+instead.
+
+
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