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[88.187.86.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-3a4f009fd9bsm13896447f8f.82.2025.06.02.01.53.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 02 Jun 2025 01:53:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2025 10:53:19 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/27] hw/i386/pc: Remove deprecated pc-q35-2.6 and pc-i440fx-2.6 machines To: Thomas Huth , Igor Mammedov Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Richard Henderson , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Sergio Lopez , Gerd Hoffmann , Peter Maydell , Laurent Vivier , Jiaxun Yang , Yi Liu , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Eduardo Habkost , Marcel Apfelbaum , Alistair Francis , Daniel Henrique Barboza , Marcelo Tosatti , qemu-riscv@nongnu.org, Weiwei Li , Amit Shah , Zhao Liu , Yanan Wang , Helge Deller , Palmer Dabbelt , Ani Sinha , Fabiano Rosas , Paolo Bonzini , Liu Zhiwei , =?UTF-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment_Mathieu--Drif?= , qemu-arm@nongnu.org, =?UTF-8?Q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9_Lureau?= , Huacai Chen , Jason Wang , Mark Cave-Ayland References: <20250508133550.81391-1-philmd@linaro.org> <20250508133550.81391-2-philmd@linaro.org> <20250509172336.6e73884f@imammedo.users.ipa.redhat.com> <91c4bf9f-3079-4e2f-9fbb-e1a2a9c56c7b@redhat.com> Content-Language: en-US From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= In-Reply-To: <91c4bf9f-3079-4e2f-9fbb-e1a2a9c56c7b@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::429; envelope-from=philmd@linaro.org; helo=mail-wr1-x429.google.com X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 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, 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 2/6/25 08:13, Thomas Huth wrote: > On 09/05/2025 17.23, Igor Mammedov wrote: >> On Thu,  8 May 2025 15:35:24 +0200 >> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: >> >>> These machines has been supported for a period of more than 6 years. >>> According to our versioned machine support policy (see commit >>> ce80c4fa6ff "docs: document special exception for machine type >>> deprecation & removal") they can now be removed. >> >> if these machine types are the last users of compat arrays, >> it's better to remove array at the same time, aka squash >> those patches later in series into this one. >> That leaves no illusion that compats could be used in the later patches. > > IMHO the generic hw_compat array should be treated separately since this > is independent from x86. So in case someone ever needs to backport these > patches to an older branch, they can decide more easily whether they > want to apply the generic hw_compat part or only the x86-specific part > of this series. Yes, it is clearer this way than squashed.