Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] removal of tci (tcg interpreter)

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 29/06/2017 10:46, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> Patches 7,8 are the removal, marked RFC... let's debate!
> ... but NACK for a direct removal. Common sense is to make obsolete
> features as deprecated first and then wait for 2 public releases before
> the final removal, so that users still have a chance to speak up in case
> they still need the feature and are willing to maintain it.

I think this is a slightly different case than what is in
http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval.

TCI is enabled only with a specific configure argument if your machine
is not supported by TCG.  This would break _build_ configurations, not
user configurations.  It's a remote possibility that users are building
their own QEMU, with TCI enabled, to work around a TCG bug.  So we can
be more speedy in removing the code.

Paolo