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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> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= In-Reply-To: <20230623230837.4194-1-philmd@linaro.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::631; envelope-from=philmd@linaro.org; helo=mail-ej1-x631.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -21 X-Spam_score: -2.2 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.2 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.09, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 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 24/6/23 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. > ``-M kernel-irqchip=off`` cannot be used on KVM if the CPU model includes > a local APIC. The ``split`` setting is supported, as is using ``-M > kernel-irqchip=off`` when the CPU does not have a local APIC.