Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>]

On 6/7/25 13:04, Aditya Gupta wrote:
> Note: No changes, only change compared to v6 is rebased to upstream
> 
> Power8E and Power8NVL are not maintained, and not useful to qemu, and
> upstream skiboot also has removed support till Power8 DD1.
> Power8NVL CPU doesn't boot since skiboot v7.0, or following skiboot commit
> to be exact:
> 
>      commit c5424f683ee3 ("Remove support for POWER8 DD1")
> 
> No direct way to deprecate the pnv chips, a field like deprecation_note
> could be added, but felt not needed as the chip will only get used if
> the user requests corresponding 8E / 8NVL CPU, which will print
> deprecation warning.
> 
> Also, no separate pnv machine for 8E and 8NVL, user has to pass --cpu,
> which will throw the deprecation warning. So just deprecating CPUs should
> be enough.
> 
> Changelog
> =========
> v7:
>    + rebased to upstream
> v6:
>    + change qemu version from 10.0 to 10.1 in doc
> v5 (https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250422043843.26115-1-adityag@linux.ibm.com/):
>    + split into 2 patches, defining macro, and deprecating 8e & 8nvl
> v4 (https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250330211012.2932258-1-adityag@linux.ibm.com/):
>    + remove unnecessary 'if'
> v3:
>    + add 'deprecation_note' argument to the POWERPC_DEPRECATED_CPU macro
> v2:
>    + add mention to docs/about/deprecated.rst
>    + add '(deprecated)' in output of qemu-system-ppc64 --cpu help
> 
> Base Commit: 96215036f47403438c7c7869b7cd419bd7a11f82
> 
> Aditya Gupta (2):
>    target/ppc: Introduce macro for deprecating PowerPC CPUs
>    target/ppc: Deprecate Power8E and Power8NVL
> 
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst |  9 +++++++++
>   target/ppc/cpu-models.c   | 20 +++++++++++++++-----
>   target/ppc/cpu_init.c     |  7 ++++++-
>   3 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

It's too late for QEMU 10.1. Let's not forget these for the next cycle.

Thanks,

C.