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From: | Cédric Le Goater |
Subject: | Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Power11 support for QEMU [PowerNV] |
Date: | Tue, 25 Mar 2025 18:16:17 +0100 |
User-agent: | Mozilla Thunderbird |
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.
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