From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47920) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZufXu-0003Rn-1k for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:51:06 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZufXq-0003Bw-Ox for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:51:05 -0500 Received: from e06smtp05.uk.ibm.com ([195.75.94.101]:40630) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZufXq-0003BP-Ex for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:51:02 -0500 Received: from localhost by e06smtp05.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:51:01 -0000 Received: from b06cxnps3075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06relay10.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.109.195]) by d06dlp02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C022190063 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:50:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.37.228]) by b06cxnps3075.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id tA6BowLv60751966 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:50:58 GMT Received: from d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d06av02.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id tA6BovBR025717 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 04:50:58 -0700 Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:50:55 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck Message-ID: <20151106125055.7d88e82e.cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1446809298-58175-1-git-send-email-borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390: deprecate the non-ccw machine in 2.5 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: qemu-devel , Alexander Graf , Christian Borntraeger , Jens Freimann , Paolo Bonzini , Richard Henderson On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:41:04 +0000 Peter Maydell wrote: > On 6 November 2015 at 11:28, Christian Borntraeger > 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 > > Acked-by: David Hildenbrand > > 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(-)