From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>,
Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kraxel@redhat.com,
Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-0.15
Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 17:40:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c5256efb-664d-0d5d-c519-4fc278091372@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tw4su3iw.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org>
On 10/05/2017 17:37, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Distro vendors put in serious work to keep versions working for 5 - 10
> years. We can't, and we don't. All we do is try not to break things,
> which is nice, and helps the distro vendors some, but a far cry from
> anything I'd dare call "support".
>
> Perhaps an argument could be made that us keeping to try for at least 5
> years would help distro vendors enough to be worthwhile. Maybe, but
> color me skeptic.
It's the opposite. Distro vendors care about it, so it is at least
plausible to have things work from 5 years back, even if we don't test it.
Of course there will be bugs and corner cases.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-10 15:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-10 6:48 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-0.15 Thomas Huth
2017-05-10 9:08 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-05-10 10:05 ` Thomas Huth
2017-05-10 10:31 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-05-10 14:47 ` Thomas Huth
2017-05-10 16:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2017-05-11 7:06 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-05-11 7:21 ` Thomas Huth
2017-05-11 9:30 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-05-11 15:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-05-12 6:55 ` Thomas Huth
2017-05-10 15:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-05-10 15:40 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2017-05-10 19:04 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-05-11 7:20 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-05-10 14:51 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-05-10 15:04 ` Daniel P. Berrange
2017-05-10 15:14 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-05-11 7:26 ` Markus Armbruster
2017-05-10 15:05 ` Paolo Bonzini
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