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(a)rfc1149.net&gt; --- 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..58530b8ede 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 - use a newer machine instead";

} DEFINE_MACHINE("shix", shix_machine_init)

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(a)rfc1149.net&gt; --- 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..58530b8ede 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 - use a newer machine instead"; } DEFINE_MACHINE("shix", shix_machine_init) -- 2.42.0

The 16MiB flash device is only used by the deprecated shix machine. Its code it old and unmaintained, and has never been adapted to the QOM architecture. It still contains debug statements and uses global variables. It is time to deprecate it. Signed-off-by: Samuel Tardieu <sam(a)rfc1149.net&gt;

--- docs/about/deprecated.rst | 2 +- hw/block/tc58128.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index e6a12c9077..15e39f8bbb 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -273,7 +273,7 @@ The Nios II architecture is orphan. '''''''''''''''''''' The machine is no longer in existence and has been long unmaintained -in QEMU. +in QEMU. This also holds for the TC51828 16MiB flash that it uses. Backend options --------------- diff --git a/hw/block/tc58128.c b/hw/block/tc58128.c index d350126b27..354c13ccf0 100644 --- a/hw/block/tc58128.c +++ b/hw/block/tc58128.c @@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ static sh7750_io_device tc58128 = { int tc58128_init(struct SH7750State *s, const char *zone1, const char *zone2) { + warn_report_once("The TC58128 flash device is deprecated - use a newer component"); init_dev(&tc58128_devs[0], zone1); init_dev(&tc58128_devs[1], zone2); return sh7750_register_io_device(s, &tc58128);