Re: [PATCH] hw/ppc/prep: Remove the deprecated "prep" machine and the OpenHackware BIOS

[Thomas Huth]

On 03/12/2019 08.45, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 12/3/19 8:29 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> It's been deprecated since QEMU v3.1. The 40p machine should be
>> used nowadays instead.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>   .gitmodules                |   3 -
>>   MAINTAINERS                |   1 -
>>   Makefile                   |   2 +-
>>   docs/interop/firmware.json |   3 +-
>>   hw/ppc/ppc.c               |  18 --
>>   hw/ppc/prep.c              | 384 +------------------------------------
>>   include/hw/ppc/ppc.h       |   1 -
>>   pc-bios/README             |   3 -
>>   pc-bios/ppc_rom.bin        | Bin 1048576 -> 0 bytes
>>   qemu-deprecated.texi       |   6 -
>>   qemu-doc.texi              |  15 +-
>>   roms/openhackware          |   1 -
>>   tests/boot-order-test.c    |  25 ---
>>   tests/cdrom-test.c         |   2 +-
>>   tests/endianness-test.c    |   2 +-
>>   15 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 456 deletions(-)
>>   delete mode 100644 pc-bios/ppc_rom.bin
>>   delete mode 160000 roms/openhackware
> [...]
>> diff --git a/tests/boot-order-test.c b/tests/boot-order-test.c
>> index a725bce729..4a6218a516 100644
>> --- a/tests/boot-order-test.c
>> +++ b/tests/boot-order-test.c
>> @@ -108,30 +108,6 @@ static void test_pc_boot_order(void)
>>       test_boot_orders(NULL, read_boot_order_pc, test_cases_pc);
>>   }
>>   -static uint8_t read_m48t59(QTestState *qts, uint64_t addr, uint16_t
>> reg)
>> -{
>> -    qtest_writeb(qts, addr, reg & 0xff);
>> -    qtest_writeb(qts, addr + 1, reg >> 8);
>> -    return qtest_readb(qts, addr + 3);
>> -}
>> -
>> -static uint64_t read_boot_order_prep(QTestState *qts)
>> -{
>> -    return read_m48t59(qts, 0x80000000 + 0x74, 0x34);
> 
> I'd rather keep this generic mmio-mapped ISA test.
> Maybe run it with the 40p machine?

I don't think that this is possible in an easy way here. On the prep
machine, the ISA bus is on a hard-coded MMIO address. On the 40p
machine, the ISA bus is behind a PCI-to-ISA bridge, thus the PCI part
needs to be set up first.

> Maybe we can rename this as read_boot_order_mm, and the previous
> read_boot_order_pc as read_boot_order_io.

I don't think it makes much sense. This was completely specific to the
"prep" machine, even the "40p" machine seems to prefer fw_cfg nowadays.
So let's simply remove this old stuff.

 Thomas