From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
To: peter.maydell@linaro.org
Cc: groug@kaod.org, aik@ozlabs.ru, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, clg@kaod.org, lvivier@redhat.com,
"Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/26] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:33:38 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180821043343.7514-22-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180821043343.7514-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
From: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
40p machine type should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Acked-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
qemu-deprecated.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 67b721156f..87212b62f2 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -195,6 +195,12 @@ support page sizes < 4096 any longer.
These machine types are very old and likely can not be used for live migration
from old QEMU versions anymore. A newer machine type should be used instead.
+@subsection prep (PowerPC) (since 3.1)
+
+This machine type uses an unmaintained firmware, broken in lots of ways,
+and unable to start post-2004 operating systems. 40p machine type should be
+used instead.
+
@section Device options
@subsection Block device options
--
2.17.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-21 4:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-21 4:33 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/26] ppc-for-3.1 queue 20180821 David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 01/26] spapr_cpu_core: vmstate_[un]register per-CPU data from (un)realizefn David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 02/26] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 03/26] target/ppc: Enable fp exceptions for user-only David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 04/26] target/ppc: Honor fpscr_ze semantics and tidy fdiv David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 05/26] target/ppc: Tidy helper_fmul David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 06/26] target/ppc: Tidy helper_fadd, helper_fsub David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 07/26] target/ppc: Tidy helper_fsqrt David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/26] target/ppc: Honor fpscr_ze semantics and tidy fre, fresqrt David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 09/26] target/ppc: Use non-arithmetic conversions for fp load/store David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 10/26] target/ppc: bcdsub fix sign when result is zero David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 11/26] vfio/spapr: Allow backing bigger guest IOMMU pages with smaller physical pages David Gibson
2020-03-23 10:55 ` Peter Maydell
2020-03-24 4:08 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2020-03-24 4:24 ` David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 12/26] xics: don't include "target/ppc/cpu-qom.h" in "hw/ppc/xics.h" David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 13/26] target/ppc: simplify bcdadd/sub functions David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 14/26] spapr: Add a pseries-3.1 machine type David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 15/26] spapr: introduce a fixed IRQ number space David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 16/26] hw/ppc/prep: Remove ifdeffed-out stub of XCSR code David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 17/26] hw/ppc/ppc_boards: Don't use old_mmio for ref405ep_fpga David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 18/26] hw/ppc/ppc405_uc: Convert away from old_mmio David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 19/26] spapr: introduce a IRQ controller backend to the machine David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 20/26] hw/ppc: deprecate the machine type 'prep', replaced by '40p' David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` David Gibson [this message]
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 22/26] 40p: don't use legacy fw_cfg_init_mem() function David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 23/26] mac_oldworld: " David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 24/26] mac_newworld: " David Gibson
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 25/26] spapr_pci: factorize the use of SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS() David Gibson
2018-08-24 15:09 ` Peter Maydell
2018-08-24 15:30 ` Cédric Le Goater
2018-08-24 15:38 ` Greg Kurz
2018-08-24 16:43 ` Cédric Le Goater
2018-08-27 6:21 ` [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] " Thomas Huth
2018-08-27 9:03 ` Greg Kurz
2018-08-27 14:28 ` Greg Kurz
2018-08-21 4:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 26/26] ppc: add DBCR based debugging David Gibson
2018-08-21 14:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 00/26] ppc-for-3.1 queue 20180821 Peter Maydell
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