[Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/26] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated

David Gibson posted 26 patches 7 years, 2 months ago
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[Qemu-devel] [PULL 21/26] qemu-doc: mark ppc/prep machine as deprecated
Posted by David Gibson 7 years, 2 months ago
From: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>

40p machine type should be used instead.

Signed-off-by: Hervé Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>
Acked-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.cave-ayland@ilande.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
 qemu-deprecated.texi | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 67b721156f..87212b62f2 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -195,6 +195,12 @@ 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.
 
+@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
-- 
2.17.1