Hello,
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,
C.
