From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>,
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>,
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>,
Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-1.2
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 18:17:55 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170712181652-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170712145121.GF6020@localhost.localdomain>
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:51:21AM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:22:33AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > We don't want to carry along old machine types forever. If we are able to
> > remove the pc machines up to 0.13 one day for example, this would allow
> > us to eventually kill the code for rombar=0 (i.e. where QEMU copies ROM
> > BARs directly to low memory). Everything up to pc-1.2 is also known to
> > have issues with migration. So let's start with a deprecation message
> > for the old machine types so that the (hopefully) few users of these old
> > systems start switching over to newer machine types instead.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>
> Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
>
> I suggest changing "-machine help" too. Today it looks like this:
>
> Supported machines are:
> pc-i440fx-2.9 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.8 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.10)
> pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
> pc-i440fx-2.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-1.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-1.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-1.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-1.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-0.15 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-0.14 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-0.13 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-0.12 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-0.11 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-0.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-q35-2.9 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.8 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.7 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.6 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.10)
> pc-q35-2.10 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> isapc ISA-only PC
> none empty machine
Any chance we can sort them reasonably too?
>
> It could be changed to something like this:
>
> Supported machines are:
> pc-i440fx-2.9 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.8 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.10)
> pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
> pc-i440fx-2.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-2.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-1.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
> pc-q35-2.9 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.8 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.7 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.6 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> pc-q35-2.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.10)
> pc-q35-2.10 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
> isapc ISA-only PC
> none empty machine
>
> Deprecated machines: pc-1.2, pc-1.1, pc-1.0, pc-0.15, pc-0.14, pc-0.13,
> pc-0.12, pc-0.11, pc-0.10.
>
> --
> Eduardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-12 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-12 8:22 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-1.2 Thomas Huth
2017-07-12 13:31 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2017-07-12 14:51 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-12 15:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2017-07-12 20:15 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-12 20:31 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-12 20:56 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-12 22:27 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 0:23 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-07-13 0:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 0:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 15:17 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-13 15:34 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-07-13 22:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-14 15:40 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-13 15:24 ` Eric Blake
2017-07-12 15:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-07-12 17:48 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-12 15:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-07-12 16:00 ` Thomas Huth
2017-07-12 16:12 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-07-12 16:23 ` Thomas Huth
2017-07-12 16:32 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-07-12 16:23 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-07-12 16:29 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-07-12 20:37 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-13 23:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-14 16:33 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-12 20:26 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-13 0:30 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-07-13 0:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 1:02 ` Laszlo Ersek
2017-07-13 1:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-13 15:20 ` Eduardo Habkost
2017-07-13 23:04 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2017-07-14 5:37 ` Thomas Huth
2017-07-14 9:50 ` Gerd Hoffmann
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