Re: [PATCH 17/24] aspeed: Remove swift-bmc machine

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 4/7/21 8:29 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 18:17, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
>>
>> The SWIFT machine never came out of the lab and we already have enough
>> AST2500 based OpenPower machines. Remove it.
>>
>> Cc: Adriana Kobylak <anoo@us.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org>
> 
> We've had QEMU releases with this machine in them, right?
> If so, then we need to go through the usual deprecate-and-delete
> cycle, we can't just drop it immediately.

You are right. Instead, I will add : 

    mc->deprecation_reason = "redundant system. Please use a similar "
        "OpenPOWER BMC, Witherspoon or Romulus.";

And we will drop the swift machine in QEMU 6.3

Thanks,

C.