Hi Cédric, > Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 00/18] Support AST2700 A1 > > Hello, > > >> Should we switch the alias to point to 'ast2700a1-evb' in QEMU 10.1.0 ? > >> and deprecate the A0 SoC and machine if it is no longer planned to > >> support them. > >> > > > > Sorry for the late reply and delay in processing this task. > > I’ve been postponing this because our customers do not have "AST2700 A1 > EVB". > > oh. There is no urgency to remove A0. > > > Since ASPEED SDK has dropped support for AST2700 A0 as of version "v09.07", > I believe it's now appropriate to remove AST2700 A0 support in QEMU. > > https://github.com/AspeedTech-BMC/openbmc/releases/tag/v09.07 > > In addition, I plan to make ast2700-evb an alias of ast2700a1-evb. > > > > Currently, I’m not very familiar with the proper procedure to deprecate an > existing machine in QEMU, but the following is my initial plan for handling > this > task: > > PATCH 1: Update the ast2700-evb alias to point to ast2700a1-evb and remove > AST2700 A0 functional tests. > > That's something we can do whenever we like now. > > > PATCH 2: Remove the AST2700 A0 SoC and ast2700a0-evb machine > implementation. > > PATCH 3: (Question) Should I update the docs/about/deprecated.rst file as > well? > > See https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/deprecated.html > > First, we update the deprecated file, then remove the soc in > 2 releases.
Update deprecated.html patch here, https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/qemu-devel/patch/20250703052400.2927831-1-jamin_...@aspeedtech.com/ Thanks-Jamin > > Thanks, > > C. >
