The shix machine has been designed and used at Télécom Paris from 2003
to 2010. It had been added to QEMU in 2005 and has not been maintained
since. Since nobody is using the physical board anymore nor interested
in maintaining the QEMU port, it is time to deprecate it.

Signed-off-by: Samuel Tardieu <sam@rfc1149.net>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 5 +++++
 hw/sh4/shix.c             | 1 +
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 2e15040246..e6a12c9077 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -269,6 +269,11 @@ Nios II ``10m50-ghrd`` and ``nios2-generic-nommu`` machines (since 8.2)
 
 The Nios II architecture is orphan.
 
+``shix`` (since 9.0)
+''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The machine is no longer in existence and has been long unmaintained
+in QEMU.
 
 Backend options
 ---------------
diff --git a/hw/sh4/shix.c b/hw/sh4/shix.c
index aa812512f0..eb3150b5bc 100644
--- a/hw/sh4/shix.c
+++ b/hw/sh4/shix.c
@@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ static void shix_machine_init(MachineClass *mc)
     mc->init = shix_init;
     mc->is_default = true;
     mc->default_cpu_type = TYPE_SH7750R_CPU;
+    mc->deprecation_reason = "old and unmaintained";
 }
 
 DEFINE_MACHINE("shix", shix_machine_init)
-- 
2.42.0