Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] hw/arm/raspi: Deprecate old raspiX machine names

[Peter Maydell]

On Tue, 4 Feb 2025 at 00:23, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> All previous raspi machines can be created using the
> generic machine. Deprecate the old names to maintain
> a single one. Update the tests.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> index 4a3c302962a..c9a11a52f78 100644
> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
> @@ -257,6 +257,19 @@ Big-Endian variants of MicroBlaze ``petalogix-ml605`` 
> and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` ma
>  Both ``petalogix-ml605`` and ``xlnx-zynqmp-pmu`` were added for little endian
>  CPUs. Big endian support is not tested.
>
> +ARM ``raspi0``, ``raspi1ap``, ``raspi2b``, ``raspi3ap``, ``raspi3b`` and 
> ``raspi4b`` machines (since 10.0)
> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> +
> +The Raspberry Pi machines have been unified under the generic ``raspi`` 
> machine,
> +which takes the model as argument.
> +
> +    - `raspi0`` is now an alias for ``raspi,model=Zero``
> +    - `raspi1ap`` is now an alias for ``raspi,model=1A+``
> +    - `raspi2b`` is now an alias for ``raspi,model=2B``
> +    - `raspi3ap`` is now an alias for ``raspi,model=3A+``
> +    - `raspi3b`` is now an alias for ``raspi,model=3B``
> +    - `raspi4b`` is now an alias for ``raspi,model=4B``

This is not how we typically handle "we have a bunch
of different devboards in one family". What's wrong with the
existing set of machine names?

Can we implement "support more than just the fixed amount
of RAM" by making '-m 2G' work, without changing the
machine names at all, please?

thanks
-- PMM