Re: [PATCH for-9.0] docs/about: Mark the iaspc machine type as deprecated

[Thomas Huth]

On 26/03/2024 14.29, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> On 26/3/24 14:08, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > s/iaspc/isapc/ in the subject
> >
> > On 26/03/2024 13.51, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > > ISAPC machine was introduced 25 years ago and it's a lot of time since
> > > such machine was around with real ISA only PC hardware practically defunct.
> > > Also it's slowly bit-rots (for example: I was able to boot RHEL6 on RHEL9 
> > > host
> > > in only TCG mode, while in KVM mode it hung in the middle of boot)
>
> I'm quite opposed to this patch. QEMU models various very-old /
> defunct hardware. I'm pretty sure Bernhard and myself are OK to
> keep maintaining it, besides we are working in separating it from
> the i440fx+piix machine. Also, this machine is particularly
> interesting for my single-binary experiments.
>
> Where I agree is we should stop reporting "KVM on ISA/PC machine"
> as supported.

+1

See also:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-11/msg01367.html

 Thomas