From 54c86f5a4844d517d2dd09922dd33a70117d0c7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Herv=C3=A9=20Poussineau?= Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2018 22:40:10 +0200 Subject: hw/ppc: deprecate the machine type 'prep', replaced by '40p' MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit - prep machine is a fictional machine, so has no specifications. Which devices can be changed/added/removed without impact? Are interrupts correctly mapped? - prep firmware (OHW) has support only for IDE drives (no SCSI). Booting from IDE has been broken approximatively 3 years ago, and nobody complained. - OHW is limited on IDE boot to a specific set of OS loaders. These operating systems are of the 2004 time frame. - OHW can use -kernel. Linux kernel freezes a long time after PS/2 mouse detection, and then screen becomes garbage. This was already broken in QEMU v2.7, 2 years ago, and nobody complained. On the other side: - 40p is a real machine, so emulation can be checked against hardware specifications - OpenBIOS has support for SCSI block devices, including 40p LSI adapter - OpenBIOS can start mostly all Linux kernels (including recent ones) and recent operating system (like NetBSD 7.1.2) Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau [dwg: Drop prep from boot-serial test to avoid deprecation warnings] Signed-off-by: David Gibson --- hw/ppc/prep.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'hw/ppc') diff --git a/hw/ppc/prep.c b/hw/ppc/prep.c index b26138e5c4..83083e4f1b 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/prep.c +++ b/hw/ppc/prep.c @@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ static void ppc_prep_init(MachineState *machine) static void prep_machine_init(MachineClass *mc) { + mc->deprecation_reason = "use 40p machine type instead"; mc->desc = "PowerPC PREP platform"; mc->init = ppc_prep_init; mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE; -- cgit v1.2.3