[PATCH-for-5.2 v2] hw/mips: Remove the 'r4k' machine

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 11/2/20 7:50 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> We deprecated the support for the 'r4k' machine for the 5.0 release
> (commit d32dc61421), which means that our deprecation policy allows
> us to drop it in release 5.2. Remove the code.
> 
> To repeat the rationale from the deprecation note:
> - this virtual machine has no specification
> - the Linux kernel dropped support for it 10 years ago
> 
> Users are recommended to use the Malta board instead.
> 
> Acked-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug at amsat.org>
> ---
> v2: Fixed Header underline length (Richard)
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst                    |   4 +-
>  .../devices/mips-softmmu-common.mak           |   1 -
>  hw/mips/r4k.c                                 | 318 ------------------
>  MAINTAINERS                                   |   6 -
>  hw/mips/Kconfig                               |  13 -
>  hw/mips/meson.build                           |   1 -
>  6 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 341 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 hw/mips/r4k.c
> 
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index 0ebce37a191..2a16078a09b 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ The 'scsi-disk' device is deprecated. Users should use 'scsi-hd' or
>  System emulator machines
>  ------------------------
>  
> -mips ``r4k`` platform (since 5.0)
> -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +mips ``r4k`` platform (removed in 5.2)
> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>  
>  This machine type is very old and unmaintained. Users should use the ``malta``
>  machine type instead.

This is incorrect, I have to move it from "Deprecated features"
to "Recently removed features" section.