[PULL,38/54] docs: Document removal of old Arm boards

Commit Message

Peter Maydell Oct. 1, 2024, 4:39 p.m. UTC

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 <[e-mail]>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <[e-mail]>
Message-id: [e-mail]
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst       | 15 ---------------
 docs/about/removed-features.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)

Patch

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index c0aa52def58..1e21fbbf778 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -251,21 +251,6 @@  to correct issues, mostly regarding migration compatibility. These are
 no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to
 read and maintain. Use versions 3.0 and above as a replacement.
 
-Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (since 9.0)
-''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
-
-QEMU includes models of some machine types where the QEMU code that
-emulates their SoCs is very old and unmaintained. This code is now
-blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across
-the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in
-trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have
-a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that
-has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support
-for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also
-dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any
-test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1``
-and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now.
-
 PPC 405 ``ref405ep`` machine (since 9.1)
 ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
 
diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index 06f8cc1b739..6e96cd067fa 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -998,6 +998,20 @@  The Nios II architecture was orphan.
 
 The machine was unmaintained.
 
+Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (removed in 9.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+QEMU included models of some machine types where the QEMU code that
+emulates their SoCs was very old and unmaintained. This code was
+blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across
+the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in
+trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have
+a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that
+has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support
+for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also
+dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any
+test images for it and don't know of anybody who does.
+
 linux-user mode CPUs
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