| Message ID | 20211206103712.1866296-3-clg@kaod.org (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | ppc/ppc405: decade cleanup | expand |
On 12/6/21 11:36, Cédric Le Goater wrote: > From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> > > The PPC 405 CPU is a system-on-a-chip, so all 405 machines are very similar, > except for some external periphery. However, the periphery of the 'taihu' > machine is hardly emulated at all (e.g. neither the LCD nor the USB part had > been implemented), so there is not much value added by this board. The users > can use the 'ref405ep' machine to test their PPC405 code instead. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> > Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com> > Message-Id: <20211203164904.290954-2-thuth@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 9 +++++++++ > hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index ff7488cb63b9..5693abb663e3 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -315,6 +315,15 @@ This machine is deprecated because we have enough AST2500 based OpenPOWER machines. It can be easily replaced by the ``witherspoon-bmc`` or the ``romulus-bmc`` machines. +PPC 405 ``taihu`` machine (since 7.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The PPC 405 CPU is a system-on-a-chip, so all 405 machines are very similar, +except for some external periphery. However, the periphery of the ``taihu`` +machine is hardly emulated at all (e.g. neither the LCD nor the USB part had +been implemented), so there is not much value added by this board. Use the +``ref405ep`` machine instead. + Backend options --------------- diff --git a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c index b4249f4626e6..f1623aa622a6 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c +++ b/hw/ppc/ppc405_boards.c @@ -547,6 +547,7 @@ static void taihu_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data) mc->init = taihu_405ep_init; mc->default_ram_size = 0x08000000; mc->default_ram_id = "taihu_405ep.ram"; + mc->deprecation_reason = "incomplete, use 'ref405ep' instead"; } static const TypeInfo taihu_type = {