Re: [PATCH 1/5] powerpc: drop Open Hack'Ware

[Daniel Kiper]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 03:46:11PM +1000, Daniel Axtens wrote:
> Open Hack'Ware was an alternative firmware of powerpc under qemu.
>
> The last commit to any Open Hack'Ware repo I can find is from 2014.[1]
>
> Open Hack'Ware was used for the qemu "prep" machine type, which was
> deprecated in qemu in commit 54c86f5a4844 ("hw/ppc: deprecate the
> machine type 'prep', replaced by '40p'") in qemu v3.1, and had reportedly
> been broken for years before without anyone noticing. Support was removed
> in Feburary 2020 by commit b2ce76a0730e ("hw/ppc/prep: Remove the
> deprecated "prep" machine and the OpenHackware BIOS").
>
> Open Hack'Ware's limitations require some messy code in grub. This
> complexity is not worth carrying any more.
>
> Remove detection of Open Hack'Ware. We will clean up the feature flags
> in following commits.
>
> [1]: https://github.com/qemu/openhackware and
>      https://repo.or.cz/w/openhackware.git are qemu submodules. They have
>      only small changes on top of OHW v0.4.1, which was imported into
>      qemu SCM in 2010. I can't find anything resembling an official repo
>      any more.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>

For all the patches: Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>

I agreed Open Hack'Ware removal with Vladimir.

Daniel