Re: [PATCH v5 0/8] Power11 support for QEMU [PowerNV]

[Aditya Gupta <adityag@linux.ibm.com>]

Hi Cedric,

On 24/03/25 13:11, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> Hello Aditya,
>
> On 3/8/25 21:51, Aditya Gupta wrote:
>> Overview
>> ============
>>
>> Add support for Power11 powernv machine type, to emulate PowerNV VMs
>> running on Power11.
>
> Could you please consider deprecating the POWER8NVL and POWER8E CPUs
> and associated chips and machines ? I think keeping POWER8 is fine
> since it has different HW implementation from the following generations.
> However, the POWER8NVL and POWER8E variants don't add much to QEMU.
> They were practical at one point for bringup (2014). They are not
> anymore.
>
> This will remove some lpc peculiarities.


I don't know how we 'mark' something deprecated in qemu. Checked the git 
history.

By deprecating, should I just mention it in deprecated section in 
documentation like done for PSeries in commit 0cac0f1b ?

Or directly remove it ?


Thanks,

- Aditya G

>
>
> Thanks,
>
> C.
>