Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Power11 support for QEMU [PowerNV]

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 3/25/25 18:11, Aditya Gupta wrote:
> > > > Could you please consider deprecating the POWER8NVL and POWER8E CPUs
> > > > and associated chips and machines ? I think keeping POWER8 is fine
> > > > since it has different HW implementation from the following generations.
> > > > However, the POWER8NVL and POWER8E variants don't add much to QEMU.
> > > > They were practical at one point for bringup (2014). They are not
> > > > anymore.
> > > >
> > > > This will remove some lpc peculiarities.
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't know how we 'mark' something deprecated in qemu. Checked the git 
> > > history.
> > >
> > > By deprecating, should I just mention it in deprecated section in documentation 
> > > like done for PSeries in commit 0cac0f1b ?
> >
> > commit 1392617d3576 is an example.
> >
> > versioned machine types are special now and will be automatically
> > deprecated and removed. powernv machines are not though.
> >
> > > Or directly remove it ?. 
> >
> > nope. See :
> >
> >     https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/deprecated.html.
> Thanks Cédric !
>
> I see we have .deprecation_reason and fields like that, will use those to mark 
> the chips and machine deprecated.

yes. That's unrelated to this series though.


Thanks,

C.