docs/about: Deprecate the old "power5+" and "power7+" CPU names
For consistency we should drop the names with a "+" in it in the
long run.
Message-ID: <20240117141054.73841-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Harsh Prateek Bora <harshpb@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index d4492b9..c7b95e6 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -183,6 +183,15 @@
The Nios II architecture is orphan. The ``nios2`` guest CPU support is
deprecated and will be removed in a future version of QEMU.
+``power5+`` and ``power7+`` CPU names (since 9.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+The character "+" in device (and thus also CPU) names is not allowed
+in the QEMU object model anymore. ``power5+``, ``power5+_v2.1``,
+``power7+`` and ``power7+_v2.1`` are currently still supported via
+an alias, but for consistency these will get removed in a future
+release, too. Use ``power5p_v2.1`` and ``power7p_v2.1`` instead.
+
System emulator machines
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