[PATCH v4] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-05 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: $ ./

Re: [PATCH v4] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-04 Thread Aditya Gupta
On 25/03/31 01:37PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 30/3/25 23:10, Aditya Gupta wrote: > > <...snip...> > > > Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Thanks for the tag, Philippe ! I will be posting a v5 with this patch split into 2 as suggested by Cedric (one introducing the POWERPC_DEF_SVR_DEP

Re: [PATCH v4] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-04-01 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
On 1/4/25 11:54, Aditya Gupta wrote: On 25/03/31 01:37PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: On 30/3/25 23:10, Aditya Gupta wrote: <...snip...> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Thanks for the tag, Philippe ! I will be posting a v5 with this patch split into 2 as suggested by Cedric (one int

Re: [PATCH v4] target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

2025-03-31 Thread Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
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 belo