The tacoma-bmc machine was a board including an AST2600 SoC based BMC and a witherspoon like OpenPOWER system. It was used for bring up of the AST2600 SoC in labs. It can be easily replaced by the rainier-bmc machine which is part of a real product offering.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@redhat.com> --- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++ hw/arm/aspeed.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index ff3da68208ac..3f036c79a45a 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -256,6 +256,15 @@ images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, U-Boot in 2017, Linux also is dropping support in 2024. It is time to let go of this ancient hardware and focus on newer CPUs and platforms. +Arm ``tacoma-bmc`` machine (since 9.1) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``tacoma-bmc`` machine was a board including an AST2600 SoC based +BMC and a witherspoon like OpenPOWER system. It was used for bring up +of the AST2600 SoC in labs. It can be easily replaced by the +``rainier-bmc`` machine which is a real product. + + Backend options --------------- diff --git a/hw/arm/aspeed.c b/hw/arm/aspeed.c index 40dc0e4c76db..823faff36a81 100644 --- a/hw/arm/aspeed.c +++ b/hw/arm/aspeed.c @@ -1379,6 +1379,9 @@ static void aspeed_machine_tacoma_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) amc->i2c_init = witherspoon_bmc_i2c_init; /* Same board layout */ mc->default_ram_size = 1 * GiB; aspeed_machine_class_init_cpus_defaults(mc); + + mc->deprecation_reason = "redundant board. Please use a similar " + "rainier-bmc"; }; static void aspeed_machine_g220a_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) -- 2.45.2