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author | Hervé Poussineau | 2018-08-09 22:40:10 +0200 |
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committer | David Gibson | 2018-08-21 06:28:45 +0200 |
commit | 54c86f5a4844d517d2dd09922dd33a70117d0c7d (patch) | |
tree | 86fa3a0d9b445a2c6e2bafb6c4cd8b7480c6a673 /hw/ppc/prep.c | |
parent | spapr: introduce a IRQ controller backend to the machine (diff) | |
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hw/ppc: deprecate the machine type 'prep', replaced by '40p'
- prep machine is a fictional machine, so has no specifications. Which
devices can be changed/added/removed without impact? Are interrupts
correctly mapped?
- prep firmware (OHW) has support only for IDE drives (no SCSI).
Booting from IDE has been broken approximatively 3 years ago, and nobody complained.
- OHW is limited on IDE boot to a specific set of OS loaders.
These operating systems are of the 2004 time frame.
- OHW can use -kernel. Linux kernel freezes a long time after PS/2 mouse
detection, and then screen becomes garbage. This was already broken in
QEMU v2.7, 2 years ago, and nobody complained.
On the other side:
- 40p is a real machine, so emulation can be checked against
hardware specifications
- OpenBIOS has support for SCSI block devices, including 40p LSI adapter
- OpenBIOS can start mostly all Linux kernels (including recent ones)
and recent operating system (like NetBSD 7.1.2)
Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
[dwg: Drop prep from boot-serial test to avoid deprecation warnings]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'hw/ppc/prep.c')
-rw-r--r-- | hw/ppc/prep.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hw/ppc/prep.c b/hw/ppc/prep.c index b26138e5c4..83083e4f1b 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/prep.c +++ b/hw/ppc/prep.c @@ -587,6 +587,7 @@ static void ppc_prep_init(MachineState *machine) static void prep_machine_init(MachineClass *mc) { + mc->deprecation_reason = "use 40p machine type instead"; mc->desc = "PowerPC PREP platform"; mc->init = ppc_prep_init; mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE; |