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>
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next prev 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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