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

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

>>> 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.
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>> I don't know how we 'mark' something deprecated in qemu. Checked the 
>> git history.
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>> By deprecating, should I just mention it in deprecated section in 
>> documentation like done for PSeries in commit 0cac0f1b ?
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> commit 1392617d3576 is an example.
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> versioned machine types are special now and will be automatically
> deprecated and removed. powernv machines are not though.
>
>> Or directly remove it ?. 
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> nope. See :
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>     https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/about/deprecated.html.
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>
Thanks Cédric !

I see we have .deprecation_reason and fields like that, will use those 
to mark the chips and machine deprecated.


- Aditya G

> Thanks,
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> C.
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