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Revert "hw/ppc: Deprecate 405 CPUs"

2026-07-03T04:37:21+00:00

This reverts commit 52f0b59ec6b780f2a3e162d5862b90b406fa4697. The PowerPC 405 CPU is used by the PPE42 CPU which was added to QEMU v10.2. The PPE42 CPU is basically a stripped down version of the PowerPC 405 CPU and is used by the Power9, Power10, and Power11 CPUs as an embedded processor to handle various tasks. Also, IBM has plans to use the PowerPC 405 CPU model within a year to model the On Chip Controller (OCC), which has an embedded PPC405 CPU. Therefore, this patch removes the PowerPC 405 CPU from the deprecated list. Signed-off-by: Glenn Miles Acked-by: Cédric Le Goater Acked-by: Harsh Prateek Bora Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260505144621.1308457-1-milesg@linux.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Harsh Prateek Bora

machine: Deprecate memory-encryption

2026-06-25T22:48:23+00:00

We've had 'confidential-guest-support' for long enough that no one should be using 'memory-encryption' anymore. Deprecate 'memory-encryption' by adding notes in docs/about/deprecated.rst and print a warning when 'memory-encryptio' is used. Suggested-by: Daniel P. Berrangé Signed-off-by: Xiaoyao Li Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/aMPYkUsytGxLPIM7@redhat.com/ Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20260512084458.622465-6-xiaoyao.li@intel.com Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini

target/riscv: Deprecate the shakti_c machine

2026-05-21T23:45:46+00:00

The RISC-V shakti_c machine hasn't had meaningful contributions since 2021 and is currently unmaintained. The machine is scheduled to be removed as it appears to have no users. Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Reviewed-by: Chao Liu Message-ID: <20260430052218.771358-3-alistair.francis@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis

target/riscv: Remove spike as default machine

2026-05-21T23:45:46+00:00

In QEMU 10.0 we deprecated the default spike machine, let's finally remove spike as the default and require users to specify the machine. Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis Reviewed-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Chao Liu Message-ID: <20260430052218.771358-2-alistair.francis@wdc.com> Signed-off-by: Alistair Francis

buildsys: Remove support for MIPS hosts

2026-05-21T06:20:58+00:00

MIPS host support is deprecated since commit 269ffaabc84 ("buildsys: Remove support for 32-bit MIPS hosts"). Time to remove. Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson Message-Id: <20260511135312.38705-3-philmd@linaro.org>

Remove the deprecated glusterfs block driver

2026-05-19T15:25:48+00:00

Glusterfs has been marked as deprecated since QEMU v9.2, and as far as I know, nobody spoke up 'til today that it should be kept. The listed e-mail address integration@gluster.org in our MAINTAINERS file seems to be bouncing nowadays, and looking at their website https://www.gluster.org/ the most recent news are from 2020 / 2021 ... so it seems like there is really hardly any interest in Glusterfs anymore. Thus it's time to remove the code now from QEMU. Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Message-ID: <20260511063013.39805-1-thuth@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf

hw/arm: Remove fby35 machine

2026-05-12T07:36:23+00:00

The fby35 machine was deprecated in QEMU 10.2 and is now removed in QEMU 11.1. This multi-SoC machine was added as an example of heterogeneous systems, but the models never evolved and no public firmware is available to boot it. Users needing multi-SoC emulation should use the ast2700fc machine instead, which is based on newer AST2700 SoCs with better support. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260510165704.2935316-5-clg@redhat.com Acked-by: Peter Delevoryas Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater

hw/arm: Remove fp5280g2-bmc machine

2026-05-12T07:36:23+00:00

The fp5280g2-bmc machine was deprecated in QEMU 10.2 and is now removed in QEMU 11.1. This Inspur FP5280G2 BMC board does not rely on specific device models and can be replaced by the ast2500-evb machine with appropriate fmc-model and I2C device configuration via command line. Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260510165704.2935316-4-clg@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater

hw/arm: Remove qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc and qcom-firework-bmc machines

2026-05-12T07:36:23+00:00

The qcom-dc-scm-v1-bmc and qcom-firework-bmc machines were deprecated in QEMU 10.2 and are now removed in QEMU 11.1. These Qualcomm lab servers never entered production and do not rely on specific device models. They can be replaced by the ast2600-evb machine with appropriate fmc-model and I2C device configuration via command line. Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260510165704.2935316-3-clg@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater

hw/arm: Remove sonorapass-bmc machine

2026-05-12T07:36:23+00:00

The sonorapass-bmc machine was deprecated in QEMU 10.2 and is now removed in QEMU 11.1. This OCP SonoraPass BMC lab server never entered production and can be replaced by the ast2500-evb machine with appropriate fmc-model and I2C device configuration via command line. Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20260510165704.2935316-2-clg@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater