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[PULL,21/26] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated

Message ID	20180821043343.7514-22-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au
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Headers	show Return-Path: <qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org> From: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> To: peter.maydell@linaro.org Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2018 14:33:38 +1000 Message-Id: <20180821043343.7514-22-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> In-Reply-To: <20180821043343.7514-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> References: <20180821043343.7514-1-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/26] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated Precedence: list Cc: lvivier@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru, groug@kaod.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, clg@kaod.org, =?utf-8?q?Herv=C3=A9_Poussineau?= <hpoussin@reactos.org>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org Sender: "Qemu-devel" <qemu-devel-bounces+incoming=patchwork.ozlabs.org@nongnu.org>
Series	[PULL,01/26] spapr_cpu_core: vmstate_[un]register per-CPU data from (un)realizefn \| expand [PULL,01/26] spapr_cpu_core: vmstate_[un]register per-CPU data from (un)realizefn [PULL,02/26] pseries: Update SLOF firmware image [PULL,03/26] target/ppc: Enable fp exceptions for user-only [PULL,04/26] target/ppc: Honor fpscr_ze semantics and tidy fdiv [PULL,05/26] target/ppc: Tidy helper_fmul [PULL,06/26] target/ppc: Tidy helper_fadd, helper_fsub [PULL,07/26] target/ppc: Tidy helper_fsqrt [PULL,08/26] target/ppc: Honor fpscr_ze semantics and tidy fre, fresqrt [PULL,09/26] target/ppc: Use non-arithmetic conversions for fp load/store [PULL,10/26] target/ppc: bcdsub fix sign when result is zero [PULL,11/26] vfio/spapr: Allow backing bigger guest IOMMU pages with smaller physical pages [PULL,12/26] xics: don't include "target/ppc/cpu-qom.h" in "hw/ppc/xics.h" [PULL,13/26] target/ppc: simplify bcdadd/sub functions [PULL,14/26] spapr: Add a pseries-3.1 machine type [PULL,15/26] spapr: introduce a fixed IRQ number space [PULL,16/26] hw/ppc/prep: Remove ifdeffed-out stub of XCSR code [PULL,17/26] hw/ppc/ppc_boards: Don't use old_mmio for ref405ep_fpga [PULL,18/26] hw/ppc/ppc405_uc: Convert away from old_mmio [PULL,19/26] spapr: introduce a IRQ controller backend to the machine [PULL,20/26] hw/ppc: deprecate the machine type 'prep', replaced by '40p' [PULL,21/26] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated [PULL,22/26] 40p: don't use legacy fw_cfg_init_mem() function [PULL,23/26] mac_oldworld: don't use legacy fw_cfg_init_mem() function [PULL,24/26] mac_newworld: don't use legacy fw_cfg_init_mem() function [PULL,25/26] spapr_pci: factorize the use of SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS() [PULL,26/26] ppc: add DBCR based debugging

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David Gibson Aug. 21, 2018, 4:33 a.m. UTC

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>
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 qemu-deprecated.texi | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

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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