Merge tag 'pull-testing-next-200922-2' of https://github.com/stsquad/qemu into staging

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@@ -213,6 +213,19 @@ MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM support (since 6.0)
 The MIPS ``Trap-and-Emul`` KVM host and guest support has been removed
 from Linux upstream kernel, declare it deprecated.
 
+Host Architectures
+------------------
+
+BE MIPS (since 7.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''
+
+As Debian 10 ("Buster") moved into LTS the big endian 32 bit version of
+MIPS moved out of support making it hard to maintain our
+cross-compilation CI tests of the architecture. As we no longer have
+CI coverage support may bitrot away before the deprecation process
+completes. The little endian variants of MIPS (both 32 and 64 bit) are
+still a supported host architecture.
+
 QEMU API (QAPI) events
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