Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-05 Thread Aditya Gupta
On 25/03/29 06:42PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > Hi Aditya, > > On 29/3/25 15:26, Aditya Gupta wrote: > > <...snip...> > > > > --- a/target/ppc/cpu-models.c > > +++ b/target/ppc/cpu-models.c > > @@ -32,17 +32,22 @@ > > /* PowerPC CPU definitions

Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-01 Thread Aditya Gupta
On 25/03/31 08:41AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > On 3/29/25 15:26, 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 > > > > It is worth mentionin

Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-01 Thread Cédric Le Goater
Please separate the changes, one patch for POWERPC_DEPRECATED_CPU, another for PowerNV deprecation. More CPUs could be deprecated. By PowerNV deprecation, you mean Power8E/8NVL CPUs right ? yes. Just the CPUs which implies the chips. Like there's no powernv8e machine as such, and powernv8

Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-01 Thread Cédric Le Goater
Also, we have time : the QEMU 10.1 development phase has not started and the soft freeze should be around July. No rush needed. Pre-release period is normally OK to deprecate things (Cc'ing Thomas in doubt...). I thought this was a fixes-only period, which might warrant spending some time on

Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-01 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 1/4/25 12:01, Aditya Gupta wrote: On 25/03/31 08:41AM, Cédric Le Goater wrote: On 3/29/25 15:26, 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 It is

Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-03-30 Thread Cédric Le Goater
On 3/29/25 15:26, 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 It is worth mentioning commit c5424f683ee3 ("Remove support for POWER8 DD1") too. In fact

Re: [PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-03-29 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
Hi Aditya, On 29/3/25 15:26, 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 warni

[PATCH v2] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-03-29 Thread Aditya Gupta
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: $ ./