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.
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <
20240507123332.641708-1-clg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1``
and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now.
+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.
+
Backend options
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mc->init = ppc405_init;
mc->default_ram_size = 128 * MiB;
mc->default_ram_id = "ppc405.ram";
+ mc->deprecation_reason = "machine is old and unmaintained";
}
static const TypeInfo ppc405_machine_type = {