Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/i386: Deprecate the machines pc-0.10 to pc-0.15

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 10/05/2017 17:37, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Distro vendors put in serious work to keep versions working for 5 - 10
> years.  We can't, and we don't.  All we do is try not to break things,
> which is nice, and helps the distro vendors some, but a far cry from
> anything I'd dare call "support".
> 
> Perhaps an argument could be made that us keeping to try for at least 5
> years would help distro vendors enough to be worthwhile.  Maybe, but
> color me skeptic.

It's the opposite.  Distro vendors care about it, so it is at least
plausible to have things work from 5 years back, even if we don't test it.

Of course there will be bugs and corner cases.

Paolo