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authorHervé Poussineau2018-08-09 22:40:10 +0200
committerDavid Gibson2018-08-21 06:28:45 +0200
commit54c86f5a4844d517d2dd09922dd33a70117d0c7d (patch)
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parentspapr: 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')
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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;