From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

We don't have any automatic regression tests for these machines and
when asking the usual suspects on the mailing list we came to the
conclusion that nobody tests these machines manually, too, so it seems
like this is currently just completely unused code. Mark them as depre-
cated to see whether anybody still speaks up during the deprecation
period, otherwise we can likely remove these two machines in a couple
of releases.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Message-id: 20250702113051.46483-1-thuth@redhat.com
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
[PMM: tweaked deprecation.rst text]
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
---
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 7 +++++++
 hw/arm/highbank.c         | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 42037131de1..b24c278f707 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -344,6 +344,13 @@ they want to use and avoids confusion.  Existing users of the ``spike``
 machine must ensure that they're setting the ``spike`` machine in the
 command line (``-M spike``).
 
+Arm ``highbank`` and ``midway`` machines (since 10.1)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+There are no known users left for these machines (if you still use it,
+please write a mail to the qemu-devel mailing list). If you just want to
+boot a Cortex-A15 or Cortex-A9 Linux, use the ``virt`` machine instead.
+
 
 System emulator binaries
 ------------------------
diff --git a/hw/arm/highbank.c b/hw/arm/highbank.c
index 3ae26ebebdc..165c0b741a5 100644
--- a/hw/arm/highbank.c
+++ b/hw/arm/highbank.c
@@ -357,6 +357,7 @@ static void highbank_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data)
     mc->max_cpus = 4;
     mc->ignore_memory_transaction_failures = true;
     mc->default_ram_id = "highbank.dram";
+    mc->deprecation_reason = "no known users left for this machine";
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo highbank_type = {
@@ -381,6 +382,7 @@ static void midway_class_init(ObjectClass *oc, const void *data)
     mc->max_cpus = 4;
     mc->ignore_memory_transaction_failures = true;
     mc->default_ram_id = "highbank.dram";
+    mc->deprecation_reason = "no known users left for this machine";
 }
 
 static const TypeInfo midway_type = {
-- 
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