From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45181) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjP-000440-V3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:52 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjN-0006v2-DJ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:52 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:53038) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d8TjN-0006uj-7F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 10 May 2017 11:40:49 -0400 References: <1494398933-8366-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> <20170510090841.GF31558@redhat.com> <87tw4su3iw.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> From: Paolo Bonzini Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 May 2017 17:40:42 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <87tw4su3iw.fsf@dusky.pond.sub.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-0.15 List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Markus Armbruster , Thomas Huth Cc: "Daniel P. Berrange" , Eduardo Habkost , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kraxel@redhat.com, Richard Henderson 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