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authorDr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>2022-02-10 17:47:14 +0000
committerStefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>2022-02-14 17:11:20 +0000
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parent7b223e38603de3a75602e14914d26f9d4baf52eb (diff)
Deprecate C virtiofsd
There's a nice new Rust implementation out there; recommend people do new work on that. Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com> Message-id: 20220210174714.19843-1-dgilbert@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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The ``nanoMIPS`` ISA has never been upstreamed to any compiler toolchain.
As it is hard to generate binaries for it, declare it deprecated.
+
+Tools
+-----
+
+virtiofsd
+'''''''''
+
+There is a new Rust implementation of ``virtiofsd`` at
+``https://gitlab.com/virtio-fs/virtiofsd``;
+since this is now marked stable, new development should be done on that
+rather than the existing C version in the QEMU tree.
+The C version will still accept fixes and patches that
+are already in development for the moment, but will eventually
+be deleted from this tree.
+New deployments should use the Rust version, and existing systems
+should consider moving to it. The command line and feature set
+is very close and moving should be simple.