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

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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has been withdrawn from the Linux kernel (i.e. there also won't be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>
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@ -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)
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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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