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Tsirkin" , Eduardo Habkost , Marcel Apfelbaum , Alistair Francis , Daniel Henrique Barboza , Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, Weiwei Li , Amit Shah , Zhao Liu , Yanan Wang , Helge Deller , Palmer Dabbelt , Ani Sinha , Fabiano Rosas , Paolo Bonzini , Liu Zhiwei , =?UTF-8?B?Q2zDqW1lbnQ=?= Mathieu--Drif , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?B?TWFyYy1BbmRyw6k=?= Lureau , Huacai Chen , Jason Wang , devel@lists.libvirt.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/27] hw/i386/pc: Remove deprecated 2.6 and 2.7 PC machines Message-ID: <20250513132338.4089736b@imammedo.users.ipa.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20250508133550.81391-1-philmd@linaro.org> References: <20250508133550.81391-1-philmd@linaro.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 4.3.1 (GTK 3.24.43; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 8 May 2025 15:35:23 +0200 Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 wrote: > Since v3: > - Addressed Thomas and Zhao review comments > - Rename fw_cfg_init_mem_[no]dma() helpers > - Remove unused CPU properties > - Remove {multi,linux}boot.bin > - Added R-b tags >=20 > Since v2: > - Addressed Mark review comments and added his R-b tags >=20 > The versioned 'pc' and 'q35' machines up to 2.12 been marked > as deprecated two releases ago, and are older than 6 years, > so according to our support policy we can remove them. >=20 > This series only includes the 2.6 and 2.7 machines removal, > as it is a big enough number of LoC removed. Rest will > follow. CCing libvirt folks series removes some properties that has been used as compat knobs with 2.6/2.7 machine types that are being removed. However libvirt might still use them, please check if being removed properties are safe to remove as is | should be deprecated 1st | should be left alone from an immediate user perspective. >=20 > Based-on: <20250506143905.4961-1-philmd@linaro.org> >=20 [...]