Re: [PATCH 0/8] hw/i386/pc: Remove deprecated 2.10, 2.11 and 2.12 PC machines

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 4/6/25 09:07, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 4/6/25 03:30, Xiaoyao Li wrote:
>> On 5/2/2025 6:35 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> The versioned 'pc' and 'q35' machines up to 2.12 been marked
>>> as deprecated two releases ago, and are older than 6 years,
>>> so according to our support policy we can remove them.
>>>
>>> This series includes the 2.10 to 2.12 machines removal.
>>
>> For this series,
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>> Besides, please add more patches to remove hw_compat_2_{10,11,12}
> 
> Are you asking for this series which was posted more than one month ago?
> https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250501230129.2596-1-philmd@linaro.org/

Actually looking for it (sorry, this was quite some time now) I realized
I did the work up to removing 4.0:

$ git log x86_deprec
commit acc32b99be93105267805d08b6803ce85d4fb997
Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 29 17:52:38 2025 +0200

     hw/i386/pc: Remove pc_compat_4_0[] array

     The pc_compat_4_0[] array was only used by the pc-q35-4.0,
     pc-q35-4.0.1 and pc-i440fx-4.0 machines, which got removed.
     Remove it.

     Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

commit 659443241b5bf8266af8a2a3f2bde249564498af
Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 29 17:51:09 2025 +0200

     hw/i386/pc: Remove deprecated pc-q35-4.0[.1] and pc-i440fx-4.0 machines

     These machines has been supported for a period of more than 6 years.
     According to our versioned machine support policy (see commit
     ce80c4fa6ff "docs: document special exception for machine type
     deprecation & removal") they can now be removed.

     Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

commit d21784220e5d251bc2cfe588a04e3842cde3d8f9
Author: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Date:   Tue Apr 29 16:55:39 2025 +0200

     hw/i386/pc: Remove pc_compat_3_1[] array

     The pc_compat_3_1[] array was only used by the pc-q35-3.1
     and pc-i440fx-3.1 machines, which got removed. Remove it.

     Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>

...

At some point I had too many series waiting for review so I stopped 
posting (otherwise having to constantly rebase / repost drains too
much energy on both author and reviewers). I might post them once
the prerequisites are all merged.

Regards,

Phil.