From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
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"Richard Henderson" <richard.henderson@linaro.org>,
"Yanan Wang" <wangyanan55@huawei.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:31:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bkgpndzc.fsf@pond.sub.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230623230837.4194-1-philmd@linaro.org> ("Philippe Mathieu-Daudé"'s message of "Sat, 24 Jun 2023 01:08:37 +0200")
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:
> HAX is deprecated since commits 73741fda6c ("MAINTAINERS: Abort
> HAXM maintenance") and 90c167a1da ("docs/about/deprecated: Mark
> HAXM in QEMU as deprecated"), released in v8.0.0.
>
> Per the QEMU deprecation policy, we shouldn't remove it before
> QEMU release v8.2.0. However per the latest HAXM release (v7.8),
> the latest QEMU supported is v7.2:
>
> Note: Up to this release, HAXM supports QEMU from 2.9.0 to 7.2.0.
>
> (https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases/tag/v7.8.0)
>
> The next commit (https://github.com/intel/haxm/commit/da1b8ec072)
> added:
>
> HAXM v7.8.0 is our last release and we will not accept
> pull requests or respond to issues after this.
>
> As of commit b455ce4c2f, it became very hard to build and test
> HAXM. Its previous maintainers made it clear they won't help.
> It doesn't seem to be a very good use of QEMU maintainers to
> spend their time in a dead project. Save our time by removing
> this orphan zombie code before the QEMU v8.2 release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Your argument for short-cutting the grace period is compelling.
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-06-23 23:08 [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-06-23 23:12 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-08-29 13:38 ` Thomas Huth
2023-06-26 8:33 ` Richard Henderson
2023-07-06 17:31 ` Markus Armbruster [this message]
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