Re: [PATCH 0/3] Remove deprecated machines pc-i440fx-2.4 up to pc-i440fx-2.12

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 11:27:35AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> While our new auto-disablement of old machine types will only kick
> in with the next (v10.1) release, the pc-i440fx-2.* machine types
> have been explicitly marked as deprecated via our old deprecation
> policy mechanism before (two releases ago), so it should be fine to
> remove them now already.

These were marked deprecated manually in 9.1.0 with:

  commit 792b4fdd4eb8197bd6eb9e80a1dfaf0cb3b54aeb
  Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
  Date:   Wed Feb 28 10:34:35 2024 +0100

    hw/i386/pc: Deprecate 2.4 to 2.12 pc-i440fx machines
    
    Similarly to the commit c7437f0ddb "docs/about: Mark the
    old pc-i440fx-2.0 - 2.3 machine types as deprecated",
    deprecate the 2.4 to 2.12 machines.

but that commit was reverted a couple of weeks later in 9.1.0 dev
when I added the automatic deprecation/deletion logic

  commit 37193b7b43b6a973e56fa115098c5895ebdc7145
  Author: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
  Date:   Thu Jun 20 17:57:41 2024 +0100

    hw/i386: remove obsolete manual deprecation reason string of i440fx machines

IOW, in terms of releases, these deprecations were introduced under
the new policy rather than the old policy.

> Note that we can not do much additional clean ups on top yet since
> the corresponding q35 machines (which share the same compatibility knobs)
> are still around and only will be removed for the 10.1 release instead.
> So the bigger clean-up can only be done for 10.1, but removing the i440fx
> machine types now will still have at least a small benefit of accelerating
> our CI a little bit (since we don't have to run tests for these old machine
> types anymore).

FYI Philippe had a series removing i440fx 2.4 & 2.5 which includes alot of
the extra cleanups:

  https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2025-01/msg02710.html


With regards,
Daniel
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