From: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
"Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>,
"Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] ppc: Deprecate 'ref405ep' machine and 405 CPUs
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 14:31:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240507123106.641051-1-clg@redhat.com> (raw)
The 'ref405ep' machine and PPC 405 CPU have no known users, firmware
images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, U-Boot in
2017, Linux also is dropping support in 2024. It is time to let go of
this ancient hardware and focus on newer CPUs and platforms.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 03f8b1b655e071432ecd9decf61e194821d06928..8cc6597b463f8c6ef3c1475e379f7465e91da597 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ 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)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``ref405ep`` machine and PPC 405 CPU have no known users, firmware
+images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, U-Boot in
+2017, Linux also is dropping support in 2024. It is time to let go of
+this ancient hardware and focus on newer CPUs and platforms.
+
Backend options
---------------
diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
index 4092ebc1ab59de14b66ebad2be7eb019faf45db1..c44e7ed162fae5ec884ba4e458138f84430a8460 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
@@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ static void ppc405_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
mc->init = ppc405_init;
mc->default_ram_size = 128 * MiB;
mc->default_ram_id = "ppc405.ram";
+ mc->deprecation_reason = "machine is old and unmaintained";
}
static const TypeInfo ppc405_machine_type = {
--
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