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From: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
To: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>,
	"Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>,
	libvir-list@redhat.com,
	"Marcel Apfelbaum" <marcel.apfelbaum@gmail.com>,
	"Claudio Fontana" <cfontana@suse.de>,
	"Paolo Bonzini" <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	"Beraldo Leal" <bleal@redhat.com>,
	"Wainer dos Santos Moschetta" <wainersm@redhat.com>,
	"Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	"Yanan Wang" <wangyanan55@huawei.com>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	"Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Eduardo Habkost" <eduardo@habkost.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2023 10:33:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9146533e-d7c4-7ccf-935c-4b1eccd4980a@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230623230837.4194-1-philmd@linaro.org>

On 6/24/23 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 <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
>   MAINTAINERS                                   |    8 -
>   docs/about/build-platforms.rst                |    2 +-
>   docs/about/deprecated.rst                     |    6 -
>   docs/about/removed-features.rst               |    9 +-
>   docs/system/introduction.rst                  |    3 -
>   meson.build                                   |    7 -
>   include/exec/poison.h                         |    1 -
>   include/hw/core/cpu.h                         |    2 +-
>   include/sysemu/hax.h                          |   49 -
>   include/sysemu/hw_accel.h                     |    1 -
>   target/i386/hax/hax-accel-ops.h               |   31 -
>   target/i386/hax/hax-i386.h                    |   98 --
>   target/i386/hax/hax-interface.h               |  369 ------
>   target/i386/hax/hax-posix.h                   |   61 -
>   target/i386/hax/hax-windows.h                 |   88 --
>   accel/stubs/hax-stub.c                        |   24 -
>   hw/intc/apic_common.c                         |    3 +-
>   softmmu/cpus.c                                |    6 -
>   softmmu/vl.c                                  |    6 -
>   target/i386/hax/hax-accel-ops.c               |  105 --
>   target/i386/hax/hax-all.c                     | 1141 -----------------
>   target/i386/hax/hax-mem.c                     |  323 -----
>   target/i386/hax/hax-posix.c                   |  305 -----
>   target/i386/hax/hax-windows.c                 |  485 -------
>   accel/stubs/meson.build                       |    1 -
>   meson_options.txt                             |    2 -
>   qemu-options.hx                               |    8 +-
>   .../ci/org.centos/stream/8/x86_64/configure   |    1 -
>   scripts/meson-buildoptions.sh                 |    3 -
>   target/i386/hax/meson.build                   |    7 -
>   target/i386/meson.build                       |    1 -
>   31 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3143 deletions(-)
>   delete mode 100644 include/sysemu/hax.h
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-accel-ops.h
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-i386.h
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-interface.h
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-posix.h
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-windows.h
>   delete mode 100644 accel/stubs/hax-stub.c
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-accel-ops.c
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-all.c
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-mem.c
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-posix.c
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/hax-windows.c
>   delete mode 100644 target/i386/hax/meson.build


Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>


r~


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-06-26  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-23 23:08 [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-06-23 23:12 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2023-08-29 13:38   ` Thomas Huth
2023-06-26  8:33 ` Richard Henderson [this message]
2023-07-06 17:31 ` Markus Armbruster

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