From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38927) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVIzP-0001aZ-M5 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:51:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVIzL-0003kQ-K6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:51:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:45216) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVIzL-0003jc-Ax for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2017 10:51:39 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2017 11:51:21 -0300 From: Eduardo Habkost Message-ID: <20170712145121.GF6020@localhost.localdomain> References: <1499847753-8513-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1499847753-8513-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> 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 Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Richard Henderson , Marcel Apfelbaum , Igor Mammedov , Gerd Hoffmann On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:22:33AM +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=0 (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. 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. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost I suggest changing "-machine help" too. Today it looks like this: Supported machines are: pc-i440fx-2.9 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.8 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.10) pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default) pc-i440fx-2.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-1.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-1.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-1.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-1.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-0.15 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-0.14 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-0.13 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-0.12 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-0.11 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-0.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-q35-2.9 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.8 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.7 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.6 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.10) pc-q35-2.10 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) isapc ISA-only PC none empty machine It could be changed to something like this: Supported machines are: pc-i440fx-2.9 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.8 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of pc-i440fx-2.10) pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default) pc-i440fx-2.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-2.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-1.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) pc-q35-2.9 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.8 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.7 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.6 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-2.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.10) pc-q35-2.10 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) isapc ISA-only PC none empty machine Deprecated machines: pc-1.2, pc-1.1, pc-1.0, pc-0.15, pc-0.14, pc-0.13, pc-0.12, pc-0.11, pc-0.10. -- Eduardo