Re: [PATCH v2] accel: Remove HAX accelerator

[Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>]

On 31/08/2023 10.20, 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 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> [*] https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases/tag/v7.8.0
> 
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
> ---
> I plan to commit this in my next PR.

Yes, please!

Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>