Re: [PATCH v2] ppc: Deprecate 'ref405ep' machine and 405 CPUs

[Nicholas Piggin]

On Tue May 7, 2024 at 10:33 PM AEST, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> The 'ref405ep' machine and PPC 405 CPU have no known users, firmware
> images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, U-Boot in
> 2017, Linux also is dropping support in 2024. It is time to let go of
> this ancient hardware and focus on newer CPUs and platforms.
>
> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>

> ---
>  v2: fixed header line
>
>  docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
>  hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c    | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 
> 03f8b1b655e071432ecd9decf61e194821d06928..e22acb17f296362509a3e143ba61bafd210a6c91
>  100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't 
> have any
>  test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1``
>  and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now.
>  
> +PPC 405 ``ref405ep`` machine (since 9.1)
> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The ``ref405ep`` machine and PPC 405 CPU have no known users, firmware
> +images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, U-Boot in
> +2017, Linux also is dropping support in 2024. It is time to let go of
> +this ancient hardware and focus on newer CPUs and platforms.
> +
>  Backend options
>  ---------------
>  
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
> index 
> 4092ebc1ab59de14b66ebad2be7eb019faf45db1..c44e7ed162fae5ec884ba4e458138f84430a8460
>  100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
> @@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ static void ppc405_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, 
> void *data)
>      mc->init = ppc405_init;
>      mc->default_ram_size = 128 * MiB;
>      mc->default_ram_id = "ppc405.ram";
> +    mc->deprecation_reason = "machine is old and unmaintained";
>  }
>  
>  static const TypeInfo ppc405_machine_type = {