From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/about: Mark the old pc-i440fx-2.0 - 2.3 machine types as deprecated
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2023 10:13:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0ea6d7c-1cc8-e233-21e5-b2c844b4f49f@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20231006075247.403364-1-thuth@redhat.com>
On 6/10/23 09:52, Thomas Huth wrote:
> As we've seen in the past, it's useful for deprecating old machine
> types to finally be able to get of legacy code or do other clean-ups
> (see e.g. commit ea985d235b868047 that was used to drop the PCI code in
> the 128k bios binaries to free some precious space in those binaries).
>
> So let's continue deprecating the oldest pc machine types. QEMU 2.3
> has been released 8 years ago, so that's plenty of time since such
> machine types have been used by default, thus deprecating pc-i440fx-2.0
> up to pc-i440fx-2.3 should be fine nowadays.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
> ---
> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
> hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-06 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-06 7:52 [PATCH] docs/about: Mark the old pc-i440fx-2.0 - 2.3 machine types as deprecated Thomas Huth
2023-10-06 8:13 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2023-10-18 13:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2023-10-18 13:28 ` Thomas Huth
2023-12-25 15:29 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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