These machines need a firmware image called 'ppc405_rom.bin', and nobody seems to have such a firmware image left for testing, so the machines are currently unusable. There used to be support in U-Boot, but it has been removed a couple of year ago already. Thus let's mark these boards and the 405 CPU as deprecated now, so that we could remove them in a couple of releases (unless somebody speaks up and says that these are still usefull for them).
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 15 +++++++++++++++ hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 2f7db9a98d..27c03ef624 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ The ``I7200`` guest CPU relies on the nanoMIPS ISA, which is deprecated (the ISA has never been upstreamed to a compiler toolchain). Therefore this CPU is also deprecated. +PPC 405 CPU models (since 6.2) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The related boards ``ref405ep`` and ``taihu`` are marked as deprecated, too. + QEMU API (QAPI) events ---------------------- @@ -258,6 +263,16 @@ This machine is deprecated because we have enough AST2500 based OpenPOWER machines. It can be easily replaced by the ``witherspoon-bmc`` or the ``romulus-bmc`` machines. +``ref405ep`` and ``taihu`` machines (since 6.2) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +These machines need a firmware image called 'ppc405_rom.bin', and nobody seems +to have a working copy of such a firmware image anymore. `Support in U-Boot +<https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/98f705c9cefdfdba62c069>`__ +has been removed a couple of years ago, too, so it is very unlikely that +anybody is still using this code at all. + + Backend options --------------- diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c index 972a7a4a3e..1578c0dac8 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c +++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c @@ -317,6 +317,7 @@ static void ref405ep_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) mc->init = ref405ep_init; mc->default_ram_size = 0x08000000; mc->default_ram_id = "ef405ep.ram"; + mc->deprecation_reason = "ppc405 CPU is deprecated"; } static const TypeInfo ref405ep_type = { @@ -547,6 +548,7 @@ static void taihu_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) mc->init = taihu_405ep_init; mc->default_ram_size = 0x08000000; mc->default_ram_id = "taihu_405ep.ram"; + mc->deprecation_reason = "ppc405 CPU is deprecated"; } static const TypeInfo taihu_type = { -- 2.27.0
