[PATCH] target/mips: Deprecate Trap-and-Emul KVM support

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

+Paolo/Thomas/KVM

On 3/12/21 2:03 AM, Jiaxun Yang wrote:
> Upstream kernel had removed both host[1] and guest[2] support.
> 
> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=45c7e8af4a5e3f0bea4ac209eea34118dd57ac64
> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mips/linux.git/commit/?id=a1515ec7204edca770c07929df8538fcdb03ad46
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang at flygoat.com>
> ---
>  docs/system/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> index cfabe69846..a409c65485 100644
> --- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
> @@ -496,3 +496,11 @@ nanoMIPS ISA
>  
>  The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
>  As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
> +
> +KVM features
> +-------------------

"------------" else Sphinx complains.

> +
> +MIPS Trap-and-Emul KVM support

Missing "since which release" information.

> +
> +The MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM host and guest support has been removed
> +from upstream kernel, declare it deprecated.
> 

What about adding an accelerator section and add this as a sub-section?

-- >8 --
diff --git a/docs/system/deprecated.rst b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
index a4515d8acd3..9c702a4ea7b 100644
--- a/docs/system/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/system/deprecated.rst
@@ -292,6 +292,15 @@ The ``acl_show``, ``acl_reset``, ``acl_policy``,
``acl_add``, and
 ``acl_remove`` commands are deprecated with no replacement. Authorization
 for VNC should be performed using the pluggable QAuthZ objects.

+System accelerators
+-------------------
+
+MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM support (since 6.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM host and guest support has been removed
+from upstream kernel, declare it deprecated.
+
 System emulator CPUS
 --------------------

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