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[109.43.179.58]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id l12-20020a7bc44c000000b003fbc0a49b57sm14054470wmi.6.2023.08.29.06.38.54 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 29 Aug 2023 06:38:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6b0374d7-a950-8f11-caae-c80ac7fe7b3c@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 15:38:53 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator Content-Language: en-US To: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Alex_Benn=c3=a9e?= , libvir-list@redhat.com, Marcel Apfelbaum , Claudio Fontana , Paolo Bonzini , Beraldo Leal , Wainer dos Santos Moschetta , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=c3=a9_Lureau?= , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Richard Henderson , Yanan Wang , Markus Armbruster , =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2e_Berrang=c3=a9?= , Eduardo Habkost References: <20230623230837.4194-1-philmd@linaro.org> <94bbfa23-836c-5e8c-db3b-2b040f3326a6@linaro.org> From: Thomas Huth In-Reply-To: <94bbfa23-836c-5e8c-db3b-2b040f3326a6@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=170.10.129.124; envelope-from=thuth@redhat.com; helo=us-smtp-delivery-124.mimecast.com X-Spam_score_int: -32 X-Spam_score: -3.3 X-Spam_bar: --- X-Spam_report: (-3.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-1.242, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H4=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: qemu-devel@nongnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org Sender: qemu-devel-bounces+qemu-devel=archiver.kernel.org@nongnu.org On 24/06/2023 01.12, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > On 24/6/23 01:08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> HAX is deprecated since commits 73741fda6c ("MAINTAINERS: Abort >> HAXM maintenance") and 90c167a1da ("docs/about/deprecated: Mark >> HAXM in QEMU as deprecated"), released in v8.0.0. >> >> Per the QEMU deprecation policy, we shouldn't remove it before >> QEMU release v8.2.0. However per the latest HAXM release (v7.8), >> the latest QEMU supported is v7.2: >> >>    Note: Up to this release, HAXM supports QEMU from 2.9.0 to 7.2.0. >> >> (https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases/tag/v7.8.0) >> >> The next commit (https://github.com/intel/haxm/commit/da1b8ec072) >> added: >> >>    HAXM v7.8.0 is our last release and we will not accept >>    pull requests or respond to issues after this. >> >> As of commit b455ce4c2f, it became very hard to build and test >> HAXM. Its previous maintainers made it clear they won't help. >> It doesn't seem to be a very good use of QEMU maintainers to >> spend their time in a dead project. Save our time by removing >> this orphan zombie code before the QEMU v8.2 release. >> >> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé >> --- > > >> diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst >> b/docs/about/removed-features.rst >> index 5b258b446b..cc8a1e38a9 100644 >> --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst >> +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst >> @@ -659,15 +659,18 @@ Use ``Icelake-Server`` instead. >>   System accelerators >>   ------------------- >> -Userspace local APIC with KVM (x86, removed 8.0) >> +Userspace local APIC with KVM (x86, removed in 8.0) >>   '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' > > Oops I didn't mean to commit this line. The doc won't build with padding. Hi Philippe, now that 8.1 has been released, could you please update your patch by removing this bad hunk and by updating the commit description? Thanks, Thomas