Re: [Qemu-devel] [RESEND PATCH] q35: Remove old machine versions

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On Do, 2015-12-17 at 15:27 -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> Migration with q35 was not possible before commit
> 04329029a8c539eb5f75dcb6d8b016f0c53a031a, because q35 unconditionally
> creates an ich9-ahci device, that was marked as unmigratable. So all q35
> machine classes before pc-q35-2.4 were not migratable, so there's no
> point in keeping compatibility code for them.
> 
> Remove all old pc-q35 machine classes and keep only pc-q35-2.4.

> -static void pc_compat_1_6(MachineState *machine)
> -{
> -    pc_compat_1_7(machine);
> -    rom_file_has_mr = false;
> -    has_acpi_build = false;

After applying this patch has_acpi_build is always true and can be
dropped, together with some other code elsewhere which depends on
has_acpi_build.  The same is probably true for other variables as well
(gigabyte_align?).  Guess it's best to do this as one-per-variable
incremental patches.

Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>