Re: [PATCH 3/9] ppc/ppc405: Remove CPU

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, May 04, 2026 at 11:48:57AM +0200, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> Hello Glenn,
> 
> 
> On 4/30/26 17:43, Miles Glenn wrote:
> > On Thu, 2026-04-30 at 17:15 +0200, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > > Hi Harsh,
> > > 
> > > On 30/4/26 08:54, Harsh Prateek Bora wrote:
> > > > Adding Glenn (since PPE42 seems to make use of CONFIG_PPC405)
> > > > 
> > > > Glenn,
> > > > Please take a look and let us know your thoughts.
> > > 
> > > Glenn can have a look, but I think we are good to remove them now,
> > > they have been deprecated for more than 1 year, enough time for
> > > any reaction ;) Otherwise that'd defeat the point of deprecating
> > > and the pain for us to schedule and wait for months.
> > 
> > Philippe,
> > 
> > Sorry, I thought it had been made clear back in August of last year
> > that we would need the PPC405 CPU to hang around.  The topic was
> > brought up by Cedric when I added support for the PPE42 processor.  Is
> > there some formal process I need to go through to have it removed from
> > the deprecated list?
> 
> I don't know of any un-deprecation process. I suggest sending a patch
> to revert commit 52f0b59ec6b7 ("hw/ppc: Deprecate 405 CPUs"). The commit
> log should mention the PPE42 processor which is a stripped down version
> of the IBM PowerPC 405 processor.

Yes, that's exactly the process - just remove the text from deprecated.rst
and warning messages printed by the code (if any)

Daniel