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Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] mac_newworld: Document deprecation


From: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 7/7] mac_newworld: Document deprecation
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2023 08:31:00 +0100
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.6.1

On 4/1/23 22:59, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
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(-)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 93affe3669..07661af7fe 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -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``.

^ this part is OK,

but below is part of patch 4/7 "Add different mac99 machine types".

diff --git a/docs/system/ppc/powermac.rst b/docs/system/ppc/powermac.rst
index 04334ba210..d4a47a6881 100644
--- a/docs/system/ppc/powermac.rst
+++ b/docs/system/ppc/powermac.rst
@@ -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




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