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Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2017 09:10:37 +0000
From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] generic way to deprecate machines
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To: Philippe =?utf-8?Q?Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= <f4bug@amsat.org>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>, =?utf-8?B?SGVydsOp?= Poussineau <hpoussin@reactos.org>, David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Michael Roth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:28:22PM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 wro=
te:
> Hi,
>=20
> This series intends to provide a simple and common way to deprecate
> machines between releases. It may be extended to deprecate devices.
>=20
> I started with the machines list from:
>=20
>   https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval#Deprecated_machines
>=20
> Comment welcomed :)
>=20
> Regards,
>=20
> Phil.
>=20
> Alistair Francis (1):
>   hw/arm: deprecate the EP108 board
>=20
> Philippe Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9 (5):
>   machine: add a deprecated_reason property
>   hw/arm: deprecate the Gumstix boards
>   hw/ppc: deprecate the PReP machine
>   hw/i386: deprecate the pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 machines
>   hw/i386: deprecate the "isapc" machine
>=20
>  include/hw/boards.h  | 1 +
>  hw/arm/gumstix.c     | 2 ++
>  hw/arm/xlnx-zcu102.c | 6 +++++-
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c    | 3 +++
>  hw/ppc/prep.c        | 1 +
>  vl.c                 | 7 +++++++
>  6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Unless listed in the qemu-doc.texi "Deprecated features" appendix,
things are not considered deprecated...

Regards,
Daniel
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