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[PULL 09/11] docs/about: Mark the old pc-i440fx-2.0 - 2.3 machine types
From: |
Thomas Huth |
Subject: |
[PULL 09/11] docs/about: Mark the old pc-i440fx-2.0 - 2.3 machine types as deprecated |
Date: |
Fri, 27 Oct 2023 11:37:08 +0200 |
As we've seen in the past, it's useful for deprecating old machine
types to finally be able to get of legacy code or do other clean-ups
(see e.g. commit ea985d235b868047 that was used to drop the PCI code in
the 128k bios binaries to free some precious space in those binaries).
So let's continue deprecating the oldest pc machine types. QEMU 2.3
has been released 8 years ago, so that's plenty of time since such
machine types have been used by default, thus deprecating pc-i440fx-2.0
up to pc-i440fx-2.3 should be fine nowadays.
Message-ID: <20231006075247.403364-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
---
docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 2febd2d12f..4e0eb2fe02 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -247,6 +247,14 @@ deprecated; use the new name ``dtb-randomness`` instead.
The new name
better reflects the way this property affects all random data within
the device tree blob, not just the ``kaslr-seed`` node.
+``pc-i440fx-2.0`` up to ``pc-i440fx-2.3`` (since 8.2)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+These old machine types are quite neglected nowadays and thus might have
+various pitfalls with regards to live migration. Use a newer machine type
+instead.
+
+
Backend options
---------------
diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
index 334d9a0299..26e161beb9 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
@@ -849,6 +849,7 @@ static void pc_i440fx_2_3_machine_options(MachineClass *m)
{
pc_i440fx_2_4_machine_options(m);
m->hw_version = "2.3.0";
+ m->deprecation_reason = "old and unattended - use a newer version instead";
compat_props_add(m->compat_props, hw_compat_2_3, hw_compat_2_3_len);
compat_props_add(m->compat_props, pc_compat_2_3, pc_compat_2_3_len);
}
--
2.41.0
- [PULL 00/11] testing patches (+ 1 deprecation patch), Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 03/11] tests/virtio-scsi: Clean up global variable shadowing, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 02/11] tests/throttle: Clean up global variable shadowing, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 04/11] tests/cdrom-test: Clean up global variable shadowing in prepare_image(), Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 05/11] tests/rtl8139: Clean up global variable shadowing, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 01/11] system/qtest: Clean up global variable shadowing in qtest_server_init(), Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 07/11] tests/aio: Clean up global variable shadowing, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 06/11] tests/npcm7xx_adc: Clean up global variable shadowing, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 08/11] tests/coroutine: Clean up global variable shadowing, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 09/11] docs/about: Mark the old pc-i440fx-2.0 - 2.3 machine types as deprecated,
Thomas Huth <=
- [PULL 10/11] tests/vm/freebsd: Add additional library paths for libfdt, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- [PULL 11/11] ipmi-bt-test: force ipv4, Thomas Huth, 2023/10/27
- Re: [PULL 00/11] testing patches (+ 1 deprecation patch), Stefan Hajnoczi, 2023/10/30