On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that
ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I
can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's also not possible
to use a Linux image with the "-kernel" CLI option directly).
It is at least in theory possible to run bare-metal code on
either board, by passing either a pflash or a bios argument.
True. I did some more research, and seems like there was once support for those
boards in u-boot, but it got removed there a couple of years ago already:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/98f705c9cefdf
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/b147ff2f37d5b
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/7514037bcdc37
But I agree that there seem to be no signs of anybody actually
successfully using these boards for anything, so we should
deprecate-and-delete them.
Yes, let's mark them as deprecated now ... if someone still uses them and
speaks up, we can still revert the deprecation again.