Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

[Thomas Huth]

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