From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
peter.maydell@linaro.org, dbarboza@redhat.com, aik@ozlabs.ru,
mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk, groug@kaod.org,
wainersm@redhat.com, Alexander Graf <agraf@csgraf.de>,
hpoussin@reactos.org, clg@kaod.org, crosa@redhat.com,
"Edgar E. Iglesias" <edgar.iglesias@gmail.com>,
philmd@redhat.com
Subject: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2021 10:35:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <18fa56ee-956e-ee2f-9270-82aa96dfde09@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210927044808.73391-5-david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
On 27/09/2021 06.48, David Gibson wrote:
> There are a nunber of old embedded ppc machine types which have been little
> changed and in "Odd Fixes" state for a long time. With both myself and
> Greg Kurz moving toward other areas, we no longer have the capacity to
> keep reviewing and maintaining even the rare patches that come in for those
> platforms.
>
> Therefore, remove our names as reviewers and mark these platforms as
> orphaned.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> ---
> MAINTAINERS | 19 +++++--------------
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
> index f2060b46f9..1ecb5716c8 100644
> --- a/MAINTAINERS
> +++ b/MAINTAINERS
> @@ -1236,24 +1236,18 @@ F: hw/openrisc/openrisc_sim.c
> PowerPC Machines
> ----------------
> 405
> -M: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
> -M: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> L: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org
> -S: Odd Fixes
> +S: Orphan
> F: hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c
Related question: Does *anybody* know how to still use the ref405ep or taihu
board in QEMU? We just got another ticket asking for the related firmware image:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/651
And if you google for 'ppc405_rom.bin', I only find pages where people are
asking basically the same question, e.g.:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-08/msg00252.html (in
2007 already! And no answer)
https://github.com/Xilinx/qemu/issues/36 (in 2019, no answer)
https://lists.libreplanet.org/archive/html/qemu-ppc/2019-12/msg00263.html
(in 2019, no answer about bios location)
https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/4/25/61 (in 2020, no answer)
Seems like the Linux kernel removed support for the 405ep board here:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=548f5244f1064c9facb19c5e9
... to me this all sounds like these 405 boards are pretty dead code in QEMU
right now, so if nobody has a clue how to use them, I'd suggest to mark them
as deprecated and remove them in a couple of releases?
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-01 8:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-27 4:48 [PATCH v3 0/7] Reduce load on ppc target maintainers David Gibson
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/7] qemu: Split machine_ppc.py acceptance tests David Gibson
2021-09-27 4:50 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-27 16:44 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-27 16:53 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-09-27 17:18 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/7] MAINTAINERS: Remove machine specific files from ppc TCG CPUs entry David Gibson
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 3/7] MAINTAINERS: Remove David & Greg as reviewers for a number of boards David Gibson
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms David Gibson
2021-10-01 8:35 ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2021-10-01 9:14 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) Christophe Leroy
2021-10-01 9:43 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-01 11:12 ` Peter Maydell
2021-10-01 12:04 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-01 13:04 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-01 13:14 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-01 13:24 ` Peter Maydell
2021-10-01 14:18 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-05 0:48 ` David Gibson
2021-10-05 4:44 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-05 6:18 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-10-05 6:42 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-05 8:05 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-10-05 8:07 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-05 8:51 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? Thomas Huth
2021-10-05 12:17 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-05 12:35 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-05 21:53 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-06 6:39 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-06 7:25 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-11 8:10 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-11 9:20 ` David Gibson
2021-10-11 13:24 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-19 9:31 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-19 9:39 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-19 9:48 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-19 10:07 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-19 11:11 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-19 11:51 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-19 12:38 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-19 13:44 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-19 14:24 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-19 14:56 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-19 16:12 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-19 20:55 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-19 21:30 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-20 9:02 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-20 10:10 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-20 13:27 ` LEROY Christophe
2021-10-20 14:31 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-20 14:34 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-20 14:41 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-20 15:03 ` LEROY Christophe
2021-10-20 14:39 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-20 15:28 ` LEROY Christophe
2021-10-20 10:21 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-20 11:40 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-20 10:12 ` CLI: Using -bios AND -kernel Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-20 10:54 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-20 11:35 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-19 9:41 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? Greg Kurz
2021-10-05 8:14 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-05 12:20 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-05 12:29 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-20 10:26 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-20 11:42 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-20 12:43 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-20 13:16 ` LEROY Christophe
2021-10-20 15:04 ` Simon Marchi
2021-10-21 6:48 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-21 7:25 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? Thomas Huth
2021-10-21 8:01 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-28 12:24 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) Luis Machado
2021-10-28 17:27 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-20 13:35 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? Thomas Huth
2021-10-20 14:55 ` BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-20 15:04 ` Thomas Huth
2021-10-20 14:16 ` Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) BALATON Zoltan
2021-10-05 8:49 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-10-05 16:15 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-05 16:20 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-10-27 4:06 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-27 8:40 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-10-27 10:42 ` Christophe Leroy
2021-10-27 10:48 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2021-10-27 17:03 ` Cédric Le Goater
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] MAINTAINERS: Remove David & Greg as reviewers/co-maintainers of powernv David Gibson
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 6/7] MAINTAINERS: Add information for OpenPIC David Gibson
2021-09-29 7:08 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
2021-09-27 4:48 ` [PATCH v3 7/7] MAINTAINERS: Demote sPAPR from "Supported" to "Maintained" David Gibson
2021-09-30 1:15 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Reduce load on ppc target maintainers David Gibson
2021-10-06 9:52 ` Alexey Kardashevskiy
2021-10-06 11:03 ` Greg Kurz
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