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From: | Thomas Huth |
Subject: | Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms) |
Date: | Fri, 1 Oct 2021 14:04:46 +0200 |
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On 01/10/2021 13.12, Peter Maydell wrote:
On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's also not possible to use a Linux image with the "-kernel" CLI option directly).It is at least in theory possible to run bare-metal code on either board, by passing either a pflash or a bios argument.
True. I did some more research, and seems like there was once support for those boards in u-boot, but it got removed there a couple of years ago already:
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/98f705c9cefdf https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/b147ff2f37d5b https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/u-boot/-/commit/7514037bcdc37
But I agree that there seem to be no signs of anybody actually successfully using these boards for anything, so we should deprecate-and-delete them.
Yes, let's mark them as deprecated now ... if someone still uses them and speaks up, we can still revert the deprecation again.
Thomas
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