From: Cédric Le Goater Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 08:06:49 +0000 (+0100) Subject: hw/ppc: Deprecate 405 CPUs X-Git-Tag: v10.0.0-rc0~10^2~69 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=52f0b59ec6b780f2a3e162d5862b90b406fa4697;p=thirdparty%2Fqemu.git hw/ppc: Deprecate 405 CPUs The ref405ep machine is scheduled for removal in QEMU 10.0. Keep the 405 CPU implementation for a while because it is theoretically possible to model the power management (OCC) co-processor found on the IBM POWER [8-11] processors. Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin Message-ID: <20250204080649.836155-4-clg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin --- diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 3d39d2a9da5..e2b4f077d45 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -266,6 +266,15 @@ in the QEMU object model anymore. ``Sun-UltraSparc-IIIi+`` and but for consistency these will get removed in a future release, too. Use ``Sun-UltraSparc-IIIi-plus`` and ``Sun-UltraSparc-IV-plus`` instead. +PPC 405 CPUs (since 10.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The PPC 405 CPU has no known users and the ``ref405ep`` machine was +removed in QEMU 10.0. Since the IBM POWER [8-11] processors uses an +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. + System emulator machines ------------------------