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Tsirkin" References: <20231006075247.403364-1-thuth@redhat.com> From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=c3=a9?= In-Reply-To: <20231006075247.403364-1-thuth@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::42b; envelope-from=philmd@linaro.org; helo=mail-wr1-x42b.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -62 X-Spam_score: -6.3 X-Spam_bar: ------ X-Spam_report: (-6.3 / 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=-4.219, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 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 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 > --- > docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++ > hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 1 + > 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé