From: Thomas Huth Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:10:54 +0000 (+0100) Subject: docs/about: Deprecate the old "power5+" and "power7+" CPU names X-Git-Tag: pull-vmclock-20250108~481^2~9 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6a41a621715976237bdf24499b617592a24fefb2;p=users%2Fdwmw2%2Fqemu.git docs/about: Deprecate the old "power5+" and "power7+" CPU names For consistency we should drop the names with a "+" in it in the long run. Message-ID: <20240117141054.73841-3-thuth@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index d4492b9460..c7b95e6068 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -183,6 +183,15 @@ Nios II CPU (since 8.2) The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU. +``power5+`` and ``power7+`` CPU names (since 9.0) +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The character "+" in device (and thus also CPU) names is not allowed +in the QEMU object model anymore. ``power5+``, ``power5+_v2.1``, +``power7+`` and ``power7+_v2.1`` are currently still supported via +an alias, but for consistency these will get removed in a future +release, too. Use ``power5p_v2.1`` and ``power7p_v2.1`` instead. + System emulator machines ------------------------