hw/ppc: Deprecate 'ref405ep' machine and 405 CPUs

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>
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Cédric Le Goater 2024-05-07 14:33:32 +02:00 committed by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
parent 1f3cabd340
commit ed95bdd1e5
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@ -258,6 +258,14 @@ dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any
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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@ -350,6 +350,7 @@ static void ppc405_machine_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, void *data)
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 = {