Re: [PATCH] hw/i386/e820: remove legacy reserved entries for e820

[Ani Sinha]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 1:57 PM Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:09:04AM +0530, Ani Sinha wrote:
> > e820 reserved entries were used before the dynamic entries with fw config 
> > files
> > were intoduced. Please see the following change:
> > 7d67110f2d9a6("pc: add etc/e820 fw_cfg file")
> >
> > Identical support was introduced into seabios as well with the following 
> > commit:
> > ce39bd4031820 ("Add support for etc/e820 fw_cfg file")
> >
> > Both the above commits are now quite old. QEMU machines 1.7 and newer no 
> > longer
> > use the reserved entries. Seabios uses fw config files and
>
> We still support machine types 1.6 & older (although they are
> deprecated already), so I think this has to wait until the 1.7 + older
> machine types are actually dropped.

How much time does it need to pass before something is dropped after
depreciation?

>
> Otherwise:
> Acked-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
>
> take care,
>   Gerd
>