[PATCH 0/3] Remove deprecated machines pc-i440fx-2.4 up to pc-i440fx-2.12

[Thomas Huth]

While our new auto-disablement of old machine types will only kick
in with the next (v10.1) release, the pc-i440fx-2.* machine types
have been explicitly marked as deprecated via our old deprecation
policy mechanism before (two releases ago), so it should be fine to
remove them now already.

Note that we can not do much additional clean ups on top yet since
the corresponding q35 machines (which share the same compatibility knobs)
are still around and only will be removed for the 10.1 release instead.
So the bigger clean-up can only be done for 10.1, but removing the i440fx
machine types now will still have at least a small benefit of accelerating
our CI a little bit (since we don't have to run tests for these old machine
types anymore).

Thomas Huth (3):
  tests/qtest/test-x86-cpuid-compat: Remove tests related to
    pc-i440fx-2.3
  hw/i386/pc_piix: Remove pc-i440fx-2.4 up to pc-i440fx-2.12
  tests/qtest/test-x86-cpuid-compat: Replaced the removed pc-i440fx-2.*
    machines

 docs/about/deprecated.rst           |  7 ---
 docs/about/removed-features.rst     |  4 +-
 docs/interop/firmware.json          |  2 +-
 hw/i386/pc_piix.c                   | 95 -----------------------------
 tests/qtest/test-x86-cpuid-compat.c | 52 ++++++----------
 qemu-options.hx                     | 10 +--
 6 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 145 deletions(-)

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