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2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: qemu development 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 On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 11:07:28AM -0400, Jagannathan Raman wrote: > On 5/8/26 10:37 AM, John Levon wrote: > > On Fri, May 08, 2026 at 02:33:59PM +0000, Jag Raman wrote: > > > > > > QEMU maintainers can correct me, but I'd think it has to go through a > > > > deprecation cycle first? > > > If the code has to soak in a deprecated state, I think an “Obsolete” status > > > better fits it as it’s replaced by vfio-user. > > Are you saying you and/or Elena are still maintaining the vfio-user > > implementation in hw/remote ? As I don't think there's anything happening there > > either. > > The vfio-user implementation is the server part of the vfio-user client and it > utilizes the x-remote machine object. I do maintain it - I proposed a fix to > bug last week and reviewed an alternative proposal from Marc-Andre. When I was asking you about mpqemu, I was talking about all of hw/remote, not just the legacy backend. Apologies if I misunderstood you. I think "S: Odd Fixes" is more appropriate (see below). > There's no active development on it due to a lack of inbound feature requests. > Are you looking for any specific features? Confused by this comment, as we've discussed before several times that you were going to migrate the testing across to vfio-user instead of the legacy protocol, then remove the legacy protocol altogether. Then no patches arrived, so I presume that's not going to happen. > If you want to bring the maintenance of this under your purview, I'm OK with I don't have cycles/interest for this unfortunately. How about the following: 1) mark the whole subsystem as Odd Fixes 2) mark the legacy backend as Obsolete 3) if we don't see any further work on converting mpqemu over to vfio-user properly over, say, the next calendar year, then remove the whole feature. regards john