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

[Xiaoyao Li <xiaoyao.li@intel.com>]

On 6/4/2025 3:14 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> 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/

Sorry that I didn't notice this series. (It would be helpful if call out 
the removal of hw_compat_2_* will be in a separate series in the cover 
letter.)

> 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.

Good news is that the removal of PC machine 2.4 and 2.5 is merged. Hope 
the remaining can be merged soon.

> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
>