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[47.64.112.237]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id 5b1f17b1804b1-450d7fb80e9sm107138185e9.27.2025.06.01.23.13.07 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 01 Jun 2025 23:13:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <91c4bf9f-3079-4e2f-9fbb-e1a2a9c56c7b@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 08:13:06 +0200 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: kvm@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/27] hw/i386/pc: Remove deprecated pc-q35-2.6 and pc-i440fx-2.6 machines To: Igor Mammedov , =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Sergio Lopez , Gerd Hoffmann , Peter Maydell , Laurent Vivier , Jiaxun Yang , Yi Liu , "Michael S. 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IMHO the generic hw_compat array should be treated separately since this is independent from x86. So in case someone ever needs to backport these patches to an older branch, they can decide more easily whether they want to apply the generic hw_compat part or only the x86-specific part of this series. Thomas