On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 07:47:15AM +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 16/01/2025 22.13, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
Hi Peter,
On 16/1/25 15:59, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
The versioned 'virt' machines up to 2.12 been marked as deprecated
two releases ago, and are older than 6 years, so according to our
support policy we can remove them. Remove associated dead code.
Please ignore this (reviewed) series for now. I'll rebase it and
repost after the 10.0 release.
Why? IMHO it should be ok to include them now already. While Daniel's macro
only starts the automatic disablement for 10.1, it should be ok to remove
them now already according to our normal deprecation policy: The machines
have been marked as deprecated in the 9.1 release already (via commit
https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/ce80c4fa6ff ), and thus they
have been deprecated since two releases already. So it should be fine to
remove them now, shouldn't it?
No, because as of 9.1.0 we documented that machine types are under the
new policy, and these were only deprecated in 9.1.0, hence the new policy
applies to them.