@@ -248,6 +248,13 @@ These old machine types are quite neglected nowadays and thus might have
various pitfalls with regards to live migration. Use a newer machine type
instead.
+``mac99`` variants other than the default qemu-system-ppc version (since 7.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The ``mac99`` machine emulates different hardware depending on using
+qemu-system-ppc64 or ``via`` property. To avoid confusion new machine
+types has been added for these variants which are now preferred over
+``mac99``.
Backend options
---------------
@@ -4,8 +4,12 @@ PowerMac family boards (``g3beige``, ``mac99``)
Use the executable ``qemu-system-ppc`` to simulate a complete PowerMac
PowerPC system.
-- ``g3beige`` Heathrow based PowerMAC
-- ``mac99`` Mac99 based PowerMAC
+- ``g3beige`` Heathrow based old world Power Macintosh G3
+- ``mac99`` Core99 based generic PowerMac
+- ``powermac3_1`` Power Mac G4 AGP (Sawtooth)
+- ``powerbook3_2`` PowerBook G4 Titanium (Mercury)
+- ``powermac7_3`` Power Mac G5 (Niagara) (only in ``qemu-system-ppc64``)
+
Supported devices
-----------------
@@ -15,9 +19,9 @@ QEMU emulates the following PowerMac peripherals:
* UniNorth or Grackle PCI Bridge
* PCI VGA compatible card with VESA Bochs Extensions
* 2 PMAC IDE interfaces with hard disk and CD-ROM support
- * NE2000 PCI adapters
+ * Sungem PCI network adapter
* Non Volatile RAM
- * VIA-CUDA with ADB keyboard and mouse.
+ * VIA-CUDA or VIA-PMU99 with or without ADB or USB keyboard and mouse.
Missing devices
Also update PowerMac family docs with some more recent info. Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 7 +++++++ docs/system/ppc/powermac.rst | 12 ++++++++---- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)