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Tsirkin" , Richard Henderson , Yanan Wang , Daniel P. =?utf-8?Q?Berrang=C3=A9?= , Eduardo Habkost Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator References: <20230623230837.4194-1-philmd@linaro.org> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:31:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20230623230837.4194-1-philmd@linaro.org> ("Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9=22's?= message of "Sat, 24 Jun 2023 01:08:37 +0200") Message-ID: <87bkgpndzc.fsf@pond.sub.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 3.1 on 10.11.54.1 Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=armbru@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 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-Daud=C3=A9 Your argument for short-cutting the grace period is compelling. Acked-by: Markus Armbruster