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

[Peter Maydell]

On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 08:40, Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
>
> 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.";

Don't forget to document the deprecation in docs/system/deprecated.rst.

> And we will drop the swift machine in QEMU 6.3

We only have x.0, x.1, x.2 releases, so it would be 7.0.

thanks
-- PMM