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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390: deprecate the non-ccw machine in 2.5
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Cornelia Huck |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] s390: deprecate the non-ccw machine in 2.5 |
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Fri, 6 Nov 2015 12:50:55 +0100 |
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015 11:41:04 +0000
Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 6 November 2015 at 11:28, Christian Borntraeger
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The non-ccw machine for s390 (s390-virtio) is not very well maintained
> > and caused several issues in the past:
> > - aliases like virtio-blk did not work for s390
> > - virtio refactoring failed due to long standing bugs (e.g.see commit
> > cb927b8a "s390-virtio: Accommodate guests using virtqueues too early")
> > - some features like memory hotplug will cause trouble due to virtio storage
> > being above guest memory
> > - the boot loader bios no longer seems to work. the source code of that
> > loader is also no longer maintained
> >
> > 2.4 changed the default to the ccw machine, let's deprecate the old
> > machine for 2.5.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden>
> > Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <address@hidden>
>
> You'll also want to add a suitable note to the Changelog on the wiki.
I presume the release notes will grab it from the Changelog?
>
> > ---
> > hw/s390x/s390-virtio.c | 5 ++++-
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)