On Thu, Aug 09, 2018 at 10:40:10PM +0200, Hervé Poussineau wrote: > - prep machine is a fictional machine, so has no specifications. Which > devices can be changed/added/removed without impact? Are interrupts > correctly mapped? > - prep firmware (OHW) has support only for IDE drives (no SCSI). > Booting from IDE has been broken approximatively 3 years ago, and nobody > complained. > - OHW is limited on IDE boot to a specific set of OS loaders. > These operating systems are of the 2004 time frame. > - OHW can use -kernel. Linux kernel freezes a long time after PS/2 mouse > detection, and then screen becomes garbage. This was already broken in > QEMU v2.7, 2 years ago, and nobody complained. > > On the other side: > - 40p is a real machine, so emulation can be checked against > hardware specifications > - OpenBIOS has support for SCSI block devices, including 40p LSI adapter > - OpenBIOS can start mostly all Linux kernels (including recent ones) > and recent operating system (like NetBSD 7.1.2) > > Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpous...@reactos.org> > --- > hw/ppc/prep.c | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > > diff --git a/hw/ppc/prep.c b/hw/ppc/prep.c > index 1558855247..fbcaebabc0 100644 > --- a/hw/ppc/prep.c > +++ b/hw/ppc/prep.c > @@ -676,6 +676,7 @@ static void ppc_prep_init(MachineState *machine) > > static void prep_machine_init(MachineClass *mc) > { > + mc->deprecation_reason = "use 40p machine type instead"; > mc->desc = "PowerPC PREP platform"; > mc->init = ppc_prep_init; > mc->block_default_type = IF_IDE;
A deprecation needs to be listed in qemu-deprecated.texi for it to be official. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|