Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/6] generic way to deprecate machines

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Nov 07, 2017 at 11:28:22PM -0300, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> This series intends to provide a simple and common way to deprecate
> machines between releases. It may be extended to deprecate devices.
> 
> I started with the machines list from:
> 
>   https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval#Deprecated_machines
> 
> Comment welcomed :)
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Phil.
> 
> Alistair Francis (1):
>   hw/arm: deprecate the EP108 board
> 
> Philippe Mathieu-Daudé (5):
>   machine: add a deprecated_reason property
>   hw/arm: deprecate the Gumstix boards
>   hw/ppc: deprecate the PReP machine
>   hw/i386: deprecate the pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 machines
>   hw/i386: deprecate the "isapc" machine
> 
>  include/hw/boards.h  | 1 +
>  hw/arm/gumstix.c     | 2 ++
>  hw/arm/xlnx-zcu102.c | 6 +++++-
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c    | 3 +++
>  hw/ppc/prep.c        | 1 +
>  vl.c                 | 7 +++++++
>  6 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Unless listed in the qemu-doc.texi "Deprecated features" appendix,
things are not considered deprecated...

Regards,
Daniel
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