From: "Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Mark Cave-Ayland" <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>,
"David Gibson" <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
"Alexander Graf" <agraf@suse.de>,
qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, "Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Hervé Poussineau" <hpoussin@reactos.org>,
"reviewer:Incompatible changes" <libvir-list@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 00:46:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180810224645.10659-1-hpoussin@reactos.org> (raw)
40p machine type should be used instead.
Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
---
qemu-deprecated.texi | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 9920a85adc..9c7ff3fe2d 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ support page sizes < 4096 any longer.
These machine types are very old and likely can not be used for live migration
from old QEMU versions anymore. A newer machine type should be used instead.
+@subsection prep (PowerPC) (since 3.1)
+
+This machine type uses an unmaintained firmware, broken in lots of ways,
+and unable to start post-2004 operating systems. 40p machine type should be
+used instead.
+
@section Device options
@subsection Block device options
--
2.11.0
next reply other threads:[~2018-08-10 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-10 22:46 Hervé Poussineau [this message]
2018-08-11 6:17 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated Mark Cave-Ayland
2018-08-13 1:57 ` David Gibson
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