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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 18:54:34 +0200
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine types
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To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>

On 29.03.2017 18:46, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Thomas Huth (thuth@redhat.com) wrote:
>> On 27.03.2017 21:04, John Snow wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/27/2017 04:06 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
>>>> On 24.03.2017 23:10, John Snow wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> I have a list of things I want to axe...
>>>>
>>>> I've started a Wiki page with such a list here:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features/LegacyRemoval
>>>>
>>>> Feel free to amend!
>>>
>>> Absolutely!
>>
>> By the way, what about old machine types like "pc-0.10" ? Do we want to
>> carry them along forever (e.g. since it is not too complicated to
>> maintain?), or shall we get rid of those one day (e.g. with QEMU 3.0), too?
> 
> It seems reasonable to slowly deprecate them.
> I'm just not sure how slowly.

We could maybe at least start with "pc-0.10", and maybe also "pc-0.11"
... if nobody complains afterwards, we can get rid of the other pc-0.x
machines later with QEMU 4.0 (or so).

 Thomas