On Tue Mar 12, 2024 at 5:04 AM AEST, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> pSeries machines before 3.0 have complex migration back
> compatibility code we'd like to get ride of. The last
> one is 2.12, which is 6 years old. We just deprecated up
> to the 2.11 machine in commit 1392617d35 ("spapr: Tag
> pseries-2.1 - 2.11 machines as deprecated").
> Take to opportunity to also deprecate the 2.12 machines.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>
> ---
> In 2025 I'd like to get ride of the code related to:
>
> include/hw/ppc/spapr_cpu_core.h:31: bool pre_3_0_migration; /* older
> machine don't know about SpaprCpuState */
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com>
I can merge this via the PPC tree.
Thanks,
Nick
> ---
> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index dfd681cd02..65111513cc 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -237,13 +237,13 @@ The Nios II architecture is orphan.
> The machine is no longer in existence and has been long unmaintained
> in QEMU. This also holds for the TC51828 16MiB flash that it uses.
>
> -``pseries-2.1`` up to ``pseries-2.11`` (since 9.0)
> +``pseries-2.1`` up to ``pseries-2.12`` (since 9.0)
> ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
>
> -Older pseries machines before version 2.12 have undergone many changes
> +Older pseries machines before version 3.0 have undergone many changes
> to correct issues, mostly regarding migration compatibility. These are
> no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to
> -read and maintain. Use versions 2.12 and above as a replacement.
> +read and maintain. Use versions 3.0 and above as a replacement.
>
> Backend options
> ---------------
