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From: Daniel Kiper <dkiper@net-space.pl>
To: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Cc: grub-devel@gnu.org, phcoder@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc: drop Open Hack'Ware
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:22:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210922122230.ufiq7ugw5vkitptm@tomti.i.net-space.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210906054615.217738-1-dja@axtens.net>

On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 03:46:11PM +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Open Hack'Ware was an alternative firmware of powerpc under qemu.
>
> The last commit to any Open Hack'Ware repo I can find is from 2014.[1]
>
> Open Hack'Ware was used for the qemu "prep" machine type, which was
> deprecated in qemu in commit 54c86f5a4844 ("hw/ppc: deprecate the
> machine type 'prep', replaced by '40p'") in qemu v3.1, and had reportedly
> been broken for years before without anyone noticing. Support was removed
> in Feburary 2020 by commit b2ce76a0730e ("hw/ppc/prep: Remove the
> deprecated "prep" machine and the OpenHackware BIOS").
>
> Open Hack'Ware's limitations require some messy code in grub. This
> complexity is not worth carrying any more.
>
> Remove detection of Open Hack'Ware. We will clean up the feature flags
> in following commits.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/qemu/openhackware and
>      https://repo.or.cz/w/openhackware.git are qemu submodules. They have
>      only small changes on top of OHW v0.4.1, which was imported into
>      qemu SCM in 2010. I can't find anything resembling an official repo
>      any more.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>

For all the patches: Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

I agreed Open Hack'Ware removal with Vladimir.

Daniel


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-22 12:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-06  5:46 [PATCH 1/5] powerpc: drop Open Hack'Ware Daniel Axtens
2021-09-06  5:46 ` [PATCH 2/5] powerpc: remove GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_FORCE_CLAIM Daniel Axtens
2021-09-06  5:46 ` [PATCH 3/5] powerpc: remove GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_CANNOT_SET_COLORS Daniel Axtens
2021-09-06  5:46 ` [PATCH 4/5] powerpc: remove GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_CANNOT_INTERPRET Daniel Axtens
2021-09-06  5:46 ` [PATCH 5/5] powerpc: remove GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_NO_ANSI Daniel Axtens
2021-09-06  6:53   ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2021-09-06  6:55     ` Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko
2021-09-22 12:22 ` Daniel Kiper [this message]

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