From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57138) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVHkJ-0003Da-Dz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:32:04 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVHkG-0001RD-7o for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:32:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55736) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVHkG-0001Q1-2F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 09:32:00 -0400 Message-ID: <1499866298.6112.2.camel@redhat.com> From: Gerd Hoffmann Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 15:31:38 +0200 In-Reply-To: <1499847753-8513-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> References: <1499847753-8513-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-1.2 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Thomas Huth , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Eduardo Habkost Cc: Richard Henderson , Marcel Apfelbaum , Igor Mammedov On Wed, 2017-07-12 at 10:22 +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > We don't want to carry along old machine types forever. If we are > able to > remove the pc machines up to 0.13 one day for example, this would > allow > us to eventually kill the code for rombar=3D0 (i.e. where QEMU copies > ROM > BARs directly to low memory). Everything up to pc-1.2 is also known > to > have issues with migration.=C2=A0 So let's start with a deprecation > message > for the old machine types so that the (hopefully) few users of these > old > systems start switching over to newer machine types instead. Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann