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[PULL v4 21/47] hw/i386/pc_piix: Mark the machine types from version 1.4


From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Subject: [PULL v4 21/47] hw/i386/pc_piix: Mark the machine types from version 1.4 to 1.7 as deprecated
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2022 17:45:38 -0500

From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>

The list of machine types grows larger and larger each release ... and
it is unlikely that many people still use the very old ones for live
migration. QEMU v1.7 has been released more than 8 years ago, so most
people should have updated their machines to a newer version in those
8 years at least once. Thus let's mark the very old 1.x machine types
as deprecated now.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20220117191639.278497-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
---
 hw/i386/pc_piix.c         | 1 +
 docs/about/deprecated.rst | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
index 8d33cf689d..b72c03d0a6 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
@@ -757,6 +757,7 @@ static void pc_i440fx_1_7_machine_options(MachineClass *m)
     m->hw_version = "1.7.0";
     m->default_machine_opts = NULL;
     m->option_rom_has_mr = true;
+    m->deprecation_reason = "old and unattended - use a newer version instead";
     compat_props_add(m->compat_props, pc_compat_1_7, pc_compat_1_7_len);
     pcmc->smbios_defaults = false;
     pcmc->gigabyte_align = false;
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 85773db631..cf02ef6821 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -324,6 +324,14 @@ machine is hardly emulated at all (e.g. neither the LCD 
nor the USB part had
 been implemented), so there is not much value added by this board. Use the
 ``ref405ep`` machine instead.
 
+``pc-i440fx-1.4`` up to ``pc-i440fx-1.7`` (since 7.0)
+'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+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
 ---------------
 
-- 
MST




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