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


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