[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated

Mark Cave-Ayland mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk
Sat Aug 11 06:17:57 UTC 2018


On 10/08/18 23:46, Hervé Poussineau wrote:

> 40p machine type should be used instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin at reactos.org>
> ---
>  qemu-deprecated.texi | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index 9920a85adc..9c7ff3fe2d 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -218,6 +218,12 @@ support page sizes < 4096 any longer.
>  These machine types are very old and likely can not be used for live migration
>  from old QEMU versions anymore. A newer machine type should be used instead.
>  
> + at subsection prep (PowerPC) (since 3.1)
> +
> +This machine type uses an unmaintained firmware, broken in lots of ways,
> +and unable to start post-2004 operating systems. 40p machine type should be
> +used instead.
> +
>  @section Device options
>  
>  @subsection Block device options

Acked-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland at ilande.co.uk>


ATB,

Mark.




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