On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 14:01, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 01/10/2021 14.46, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 13:22, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: > >> > >> 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. > >> + > > > > What is this "too" a reference to? The immediately preceding section > > in the document is about the MIPS I7200 CPU model. > > It was meant as a reference to the machines below. I'll try to rephrase in v2. > (As far as I can see, the 405 can only be used on these boards, it does not > seem to be possible to use these CPU types on other boards)
OK. I think it's probably a good policy to make deprecation-notice section text self-contained, because we're going to be regularly deleting them, or moving them to removed-features.rst. > > The not-being-deprecated sam460ex board also uses the ppc405 CPU > > I think, so I don't think we can drop the CPU models. > > No, that board uses a 460exb CPU which is a slightly different kind of > embedded PPC CPU, as far as I know. Ah, right. I was confused because sam460ex.c calls ppc405_ebc_init(), and so it came up from a quick grep for 'ppc405'. If we want to deprecate the CPU models I think it would be useful to list all the ones we're deprecating explicitly here (using the names that the '-cpu' option accepts). thanks -- PMM
