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

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 26/3/24 14:37, Thomas Huth wrote:
> 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

Rough plan is to extract 'isapc' machine from PCMachineClass,
having the latter becoming smth like PcPciMachineClass, on
top of:
20240305134221.30924-1-philmd@linaro.org/">https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240305134221.30924-1-philmd@linaro.org/

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

lol I didn't remember I posted a similar patch =)