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| author | Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com> | 2025-02-04 09:06:48 +0100 |
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| committer | Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> | 2025-03-11 22:40:47 +1000 |
| commit | e7dba30e827d0ab59b23de444a4d7f7412430223 (patch) | |
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| parent | e5029e28f0f5ef7e7d5b927aa61a32232be99438 (diff) | |
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ppc/ppc405: Remove boards
The ref405ep machine is the only PPC 405 machine. Drop all support by
removing the SoC and associated devices as-well as the machine.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250110141800.1587589-3-clg@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20250204080649.836155-3-clg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/removed-features.rst | 7 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/system/ppc/embedded.rst | 1 |
3 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index 589951b..3d39d2a 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -277,14 +277,6 @@ deprecated; use the new name ``dtb-randomness`` instead. The new name better reflects the way this property affects all random data within the device tree blob, not just the ``kaslr-seed`` node. -PPC 405 ``ref405ep`` machine (since 9.1) -'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' - -The ``ref405ep`` machine and PPC 405 CPU have no known users, firmware -images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, U-Boot in -2017, Linux also is dropping support in 2024. It is time to let go of -this ancient hardware and focus on newer CPUs and platforms. - Big-Endian variants of MicroBlaze ``petalogix-ml605`` and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` machines (since 9.2) '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst index 156c0c2..2527a91 100644 --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst @@ -1064,6 +1064,13 @@ for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any test images for it and don't know of anybody who does. +ppc ``ref405ep`` machine (removed in 10.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +This machine was removed because PPC 405 CPU have no known users, +firmware images are not available, OpenWRT dropped support in 2019, +U-Boot in 2017, and Linux in 2024. + linux-user mode CPUs -------------------- diff --git a/docs/system/ppc/embedded.rst b/docs/system/ppc/embedded.rst index af3b3d9..5cb7d98 100644 --- a/docs/system/ppc/embedded.rst +++ b/docs/system/ppc/embedded.rst @@ -4,6 +4,5 @@ Embedded family boards - ``bamboo`` bamboo - ``mpc8544ds`` mpc8544ds - ``ppce500`` generic paravirt e500 platform -- ``ref405ep`` ref405ep - ``sam460ex`` aCube Sam460ex - ``virtex-ml507`` Xilinx Virtex ML507 reference design |