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docs: Document removal of old Arm boards

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 <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20240903160751.4100218-37-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Peter Maydell 11 months ago
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@@ -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 no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to
 no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to
 read and maintain. Use versions 3.0 and above as a replacement.
 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)
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-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)
 PPC 405 ``ref405ep`` machine (since 9.1)
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@@ -998,6 +998,20 @@ The Nios II architecture was orphan.
 
 
 The machine was unmaintained.
 The machine was unmaintained.
 
 
+Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (removed in 9.2)
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+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
 linux-user mode CPUs
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