Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-1.2

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 06:17:55PM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> 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?

If we use strverscmp(), it will be sorted in a more reasonable
way.  We could copy the gnulib version on systems without glibc.
Life is too short for writing configure checks by hand, though; I
will add this to the end of my wish-todo list.  If somebody wants
to volunteer, be my guest.

I'm CCing Eric in case he has suggestions that would help import
the gnulib module in an easy way.

-- 
Eduardo