target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

Power8E and Power8NVL variants are not of much use in QEMU now, and not
being maintained either.

Power8NVL CPU doesn't boot since skiboot v7.0, or following skiboot commit
to be exact:

    commit c5424f683ee3 ("Remove support for POWER8 DD1")

Deprecate the 8E and 8NVL variants.

Suggested-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Anushree Mathur <anushree.mathur@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250607110412.2342511-3-adityag@linux.ibm.com
Message-ID: <20250607110412.2342511-3-adityag@linux.ibm.com>

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index aa300bbd50735293869bd2780fb846ae8ef6755a..b8d60c1a90bac8ea5fbd4dfcbf538cb62cb32a58 100644 (file)
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -253,6 +253,15 @@ embedded 405 for power management (OCC) and other internal tasks, it
 is theoretically possible to use QEMU to model them. Let's keep the
 CPU implementation for a while before removing all support.
 
+Power8E and Power8NVL CPUs and corresponding Pnv chips (since 10.1)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The Power8E and Power8NVL variants of Power8 are not really useful anymore
+in qemu, and are old and unmaintained now.
+
+The CPUs as well as corresponding Power8NVL and Power8E PnvChips will also
+be considered deprecated.
+
 System emulator machines
 ------------------------
 

diff --git a/target/ppc/cpu-models.c b/target/ppc/cpu-models.c
index 334b1d2ff39a7df9a510e2c8cd55c134a148c37b..89ae763c7f6e224f693357ed15dbe6c124c3bf05 100644 (file)
--- a/target/ppc/cpu-models.c
+++ b/target/ppc/cpu-models.c
@@ -739,12 +739,12 @@
                 "POWER7 v2.3")
     POWERPC_DEF("power7p_v2.1",  CPU_POWERPC_POWER7P_v21,            POWER7,
                 "POWER7+ v2.1")
-    POWERPC_DEF("power8e_v2.1",  CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_v21,            POWER8,
-                "POWER8E v2.1")
+    POWERPC_DEPRECATED_CPU("power8e_v2.1",  CPU_POWERPC_POWER8E_v21, POWER8,
+                "POWER8E v2.1", "CPU is unmaintained.")
     POWERPC_DEF("power8_v2.0",   CPU_POWERPC_POWER8_v20,             POWER8,
                 "POWER8 v2.0")
-    POWERPC_DEF("power8nvl_v1.0", CPU_POWERPC_POWER8NVL_v10,         POWER8,
-                "POWER8NVL v1.0")
+    POWERPC_DEPRECATED_CPU("power8nvl_v1.0", CPU_POWERPC_POWER8NVL_v10, POWER8,
+                "POWER8NVL v1.0", "CPU is unmaintained.")
     POWERPC_DEF("power9_v2.0",   CPU_POWERPC_POWER9_DD20,            POWER9,
                 "POWER9 v2.0")
     POWERPC_DEF("power9_v2.2",   CPU_POWERPC_POWER9_DD22,            POWER9,