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[88.187.86.199]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-38bf322aab8sm1956563f8f.57.2025.01.17.00.44.42 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 17 Jan 2025 00:44:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 09:44:42 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: [PATCH-for-10.1 v2 00/13] hw/arm: Remove virt-2.6 up to virt-2.12 machines To: =?UTF-8?Q?Daniel_P=2E_Berrang=C3=A9?= , Thomas Huth Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Peter Maydell , Igor Mammedov , Andrew Jones , Shannon Zhao , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Ani Sinha , qemu-arm@nongnu.org References: <20250116145944.38028-1-philmd@linaro.org> <823a0892-e9d9-4d26-b862-83ffd60c2ad1@linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US From: =?UTF-8?Q?Philippe_Mathieu-Daud=C3=A9?= In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Received-SPF: pass client-ip=2a00:1450:4864:20::32e; envelope-from=philmd@linaro.org; helo=mail-wm1-x32e.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 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/