Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine types

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Thomas Huth (address@hidden) wrote:
> On 27.03.2017 21:04, John Snow wrote:
> > 
> > On 03/27/2017 04:06 AM, Thomas Huth wrote:
> >> On 24.03.2017 23:10, John Snow wrote:
> [...]
> >>> I have a list of things I want to axe...
> >>
> >> I've started a Wiki page with such a list here:
> >>
> >> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features/LegacyRemoval
> >>
> >> Feel free to amend!
> > 
> > Absolutely!
> 
> By the way, what about old machine types like "pc-0.10" ? Do we want to
> carry them along forever (e.g. since it is not too complicated to
> maintain?), or shall we get rid of those one day (e.g. with QEMU 3.0), too?

It seems reasonable to slowly deprecate them.
I'm just not sure how slowly.

Dave

> 
>  Thomas
> 
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