Re: Deprecate the ppc405 boards in QEMU? (was: [PATCH v3 4/7] MAINTAINERS: Orphan obscure ppc platforms)

[Peter Maydell]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 10:43, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
> Nevertheless, as long as nobody has a hint where to find that
> ppc405_rom.bin, I think both boards are pretty useless in QEMU (as far as I
> can see, they do not work without the bios at all, so it's also not possible
> to use a Linux image with the "-kernel" CLI option directly).

It is at least in theory possible to run bare-metal code on
either board, by passing either a pflash or a bios argument.
But I agree that there seem to be no signs of anybody actually
successfully using these boards for anything, so we should
deprecate-and-delete them.

-- PMM