Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 25/10/18 10:52, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> While being at it deprecate cirrus too.
>
> Reason (short version): use stdvga instead.
> Verbose version:
>      https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful
>
> Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann <address@hidden>
> ---
>   hw/display/cirrus_vga.c     | 2 ++
>   hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c | 2 ++
>   qemu-deprecated.texi        | 4 ++++
>   3 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c b/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c
> index d9b854d..2f16ba9 100644
> --- a/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c
> +++ b/hw/display/cirrus_vga.c
> @@ -3024,6 +3024,8 @@ static void cirrus_vga_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, 
> void *data)
>       dc->vmsd = &vmstate_pci_cirrus_vga;
>       dc->props = pci_vga_cirrus_properties;
>       dc->hotpluggable = false;
> +    dc->deprecation_reason =
> +        
> "https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful";;

We should propably add an archived copy of this post to www.qemu.org.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>

>   }
>   
>   static const TypeInfo cirrus_vga_info = {
> diff --git a/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c b/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c
> index fa10b74..c2d853c 100644
> --- a/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c
> +++ b/hw/display/cirrus_vga_isa.c
> @@ -81,6 +81,8 @@ static void isa_cirrus_vga_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, 
> void *data)
>       dc->realize = isa_cirrus_vga_realizefn;
>       dc->props = isa_cirrus_vga_properties;
>       set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_DISPLAY, dc->categories);
> +    dc->deprecation_reason =
> +        
> "https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2014/10/qemu-using-cirrus-considered-harmful";;
>   }
>   
>   static const TypeInfo isa_cirrus_vga_info = {
> diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> index 7951a4f..1b1d434 100644
> --- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
> +++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
> @@ -120,6 +120,10 @@ or ``ivshmem-doorbell`` device types.
>   
>   Has known buffer overflow.
>   
> address@hidden cirrus (since 3.1)
> +
> +Use stdvga instead (-vga std or -device VGA).
> +
>   @section System emulator machines
>   
>   @subsection pc-0.10 and pc-0.11 (since 3.0)