On 30/3/25 23:10, Aditya Gupta wrote:
Power8E and Power8NVL variants are not of much use in QEMU now, and not being maintained either.Newer skiboot might not be able to boot Power8NVL since skiboot v7.0 Deprecate the 8E and 8NVL variants. After deprecation, QEMU will print a warning like below when the CPU/Chips are used: $ ./build/qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv8 --cpu power8nvl -nographic qemu-system-ppc64: warning: CPU model power8nvl_v1.0-powerpc64-cpu is deprecated -- CPU is unmaintained. ... $ ./build/qemu-system-ppc64 -M powernv8 --cpu power8e -nographic qemu-system-ppc64: warning: CPU model power8e_v2.1-powerpc64-cpu is deprecated -- CPU is unmaintained. ... $ ./build/qemu-system-ppc64 -M pseries --cpu power8e -nographic qemu-system-ppc64: warning: CPU model power8e_v2.1-powerpc64-cpu is deprecated -- CPU is unmaintained. ... Also, print '(deprecated)' for deprecated CPUs in 'qemu-system-ppc64 --cpu ?': $ ./build/qemu-system-ppc64 --cpu help ... power8e_v2.1 PVR 004b0201 (deprecated) power8e (alias for power8e_v2.1) power8nvl_v1.0 PVR 004c0100 (deprecated) power8nvl (alias for power8nvl_v1.0) power8_v2.0 PVR 004d0200 power8 (alias for power8_v2.0) power9_v2.0 PVR 004e1200 power9_v2.2 PVR 004e1202 ... Suggested-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> Signed-off-by: Aditya Gupta <adit...@linux.ibm.com>
--- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++ target/ppc/cpu-models.c | 20 +++++++++++++++----- target/ppc/cpu_init.c | 7 ++++++- 3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>
