Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390: deprecate the non-ccw machine in 2.5

[Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:41:04 +0000
Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 6 November 2015 at 11:28, Christian Borntraeger
> <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> wrote:
> > The non-ccw machine for s390 (s390-virtio) is not very well maintained
> > and caused several issues in the past:
> > - aliases like virtio-blk did not work for s390
> > - virtio refactoring failed due to long standing bugs (e.g.see commit
> >   cb927b8a "s390-virtio: Accommodate guests using virtqueues too early")
> > - some features like memory hotplug will cause trouble due to virtio storage
> >   being above guest memory
> > - the boot loader bios no longer seems to work. the source code of that
> >   loader is also no longer maintained
> >
> > 2.4 changed the default to the ccw machine, let's deprecate the old
> > machine for 2.5.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
> > Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <dahi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> You'll also want to add a suitable note to the Changelog on the wiki.

I presume the release notes will grab it from the Changelog?

> 
> > ---
> >  hw/s390x/s390-virtio.c | 5 ++++-
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)