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* [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated
@ 2018-08-10 22:46 Hervé Poussineau
  2018-08-11  6:17 ` Mark Cave-Ayland
  2018-08-13  1:57 ` David Gibson
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Hervé Poussineau @ 2018-08-10 22:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: Mark Cave-Ayland, David Gibson, Alexander Graf, qemu-ppc,
	Daniel P . Berrangé, Hervé Poussineau,
	reviewer:Incompatible changes

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

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