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

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 14:04, Christophe Leroy
<christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> wrote:
> I really would like to be able to use them to validate Linux Kernel
> changes, hence looking for that missing BIOS.
>
> If we remove ppc405 from QEMU, we won't be able to do any regression
> tests of Linux Kernel on those processors.

Do you (does anyone) have real hardware to test against? If the only
thing you have is QEMU's emulation, I wouldn't particularly trust it
to be bug-free enough to keep the kernel still working on real h/w...

-- PMM