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Re: [PATCH v2] accel: Remove HAX accelerator
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Alex Bennée |
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Re: [PATCH v2] accel: Remove HAX accelerator |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:34:16 +0100 |
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Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org> writes:
> HAX is deprecated since commits 73741fda6c ("MAINTAINERS: Abort
> HAXM maintenance") and 90c167a1da ("docs/about/deprecated: Mark
> HAXM in QEMU as deprecated"), released in v8.0.0.
>
> Per the latest HAXM release (v7.8 [*]), the latest QEMU supported
> is v7.2:
>
> Note: Up to this release, HAXM supports QEMU from 2.9.0 to 7.2.0.
>
> The next commit (https://github.com/intel/haxm/commit/da1b8ec072)
> added:
>
> HAXM v7.8.0 is our last release and we will not accept
> pull requests or respond to issues after this.
>
> It became very hard to build and test HAXM. Its previous
> maintainers made it clear they won't help. It doesn't seem to be
> a very good use of QEMU maintainers to spend their time in a dead
> project. Save our time by removing this orphan zombie code.
>
> [*] https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases/tag/v7.8.0
>
> Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro