Re: [PATCH-for-10.1 v2 00/13] hw/arm: Remove virt-2.6 up to virt-2.12 machines

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>]

On 17/1/25 09:09, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 07:47:15AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> On 16/01/2025 22.13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> On 16/1/25 15:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
>>>> The versioned 'virt' machines up to 2.12 been marked as deprecated
>>>> two releases ago, and are older than 6 years, so according to our
>>>> support policy we can remove them. Remove associated dead code.


>>> Please ignore this (reviewed) series for now. I'll rebase it and
>>> repost after the 10.0 release.
>>
>> Why? IMHO it should be ok to include them now already. While Daniel's macro
>> only starts the automatic disablement for 10.1, it should be ok to remove
>> them now already according to our normal deprecation policy: The machines
>> have been marked as deprecated in the 9.1 release already (via commit
>> https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/ce80c4fa6ff ), and thus they
>> have been deprecated since two releases already. So it should be fine to
>> remove them now, shouldn't it?
> 
> No, because as of 9.1.0 we documented that machine types are under the
> new policy, and these were only deprecated in 9.1.0, hence the new policy
> applies to them.

Thomas, see Daniel's larger explanation:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/Z4jRYiUGAzz1_NRV@redhat.com/