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[149.14.88.106]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m5sm6141097wms.41.2021.10.01.01.35.52 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 01 Oct 2021 01:35:52 -0700 (PDT) To: David Gibson , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org References: <20210927044808.73391-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> <20210927044808.73391-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> From: Thomas Huth Subject: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) Message-ID: <18fa56ee-956e-ee2f-9270-82aa96dfde09@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 10:35:51 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.13.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210927044808.73391-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Authentication-Results: relay.mimecast.com; auth=pass smtp.auth=CUSA124A263 smtp.mailfrom=thuth@redhat.com X-Mimecast-Spam-Score: 0 X-Mimecast-Originator: redhat.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.133.124; envelope-from=thuth@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Christophe Leroy , peter.maydell@linaro.org, dbarboza@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk, groug@kaod.org, wainersm@redhat.com, Alexander Graf , hpoussin@reactos.org, clg@kaod.org, crosa@redhat.com, "Edgar E. Iglesias" , philmd@redhat.com Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" On 27/09/2021 06.48, David Gibson wrote: > There are a nunber of old embedded ppc machine types which have been little > changed and in "Odd Fixes" state for a long time. With both myself and > Greg Kurz moving toward other areas, we no longer have the capacity to > keep reviewing and maintaining even the rare patches that come in for those > platforms. > > Therefore, remove our names as reviewers and mark these platforms as > orphaned. > > Signed-off-by: David Gibson > Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz > Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater > --- > MAINTAINERS | 19 +++++-------------- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS > index f2060b46f9..1ecb5716c8 100644 > --- a/MAINTAINERS > +++ b/MAINTAINERS > @@ -1236,24 +1236,18 @@ F: hw/openrisc/openrisc_sim.c > PowerPC Machines > ---------------- > 405 > -M: David Gibson > -M: Greg Kurz > L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org > -S: Odd Fixes > +S: Orphan > F: hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c Related question: Does *anybody* know how to still use the ref405ep or taihu board in QEMU? We just got another ticket asking for the related firmware image: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/651 And if you google for 'ppc405_rom.bin', I only find pages where people are asking basically the same question, e.g.: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-08/msg00252.html (in 2007 already! And no answer) https://github.com/Xilinx/qemu/issues/36 (in 2019, no answer) https://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2019-12/msg00263.html (in 2019, no answer about bios location) https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/25/61 (in 2020, no answer) Seems like the Linux kernel removed support for the 405ep board here: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=548f5244f1064c9facb19c5e9 ... to me this all sounds like these 405 boards are pretty dead code in QEMU right now, so if nobody has a clue how to use them, I'd suggest to mark them as deprecated and remove them in a couple of releases? Thomas