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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 4/4] qemu-options: Do not show
 -enable-kvm and -enable-hax in the docs anymore
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To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com, Ben Warren <ben@skyportsystems.com>, qemu-trivial@nongnu.org, Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 10:39:29AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 26/06/2018 18:06, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> >> On the other hand I see no benefit in changing a default that people are
> >> obviously not using (since most people use KVM, not TCG).  Distros will
> >> keep shipping, and people will keep using qemu-kvm even if we change the
> >> default.
> >
> > Not changing the default is different from promising we will keep
> > ABI compatibility if the accelerator is omitted.  I just want to
> > get rid of the latter.
> 
> I understand; what I don't understand is why do the latter unless you
> plan to change the default.

Why should we make a compatibility promise if we don't have to?
Making and keeping promises have a cost, and I'd like us to spend
our energy elsewhere.

-- 
Eduardo