Re: [Qemu-devel] Deprecating old machine types

[Thomas Huth]

On 29.03.2017 18:46, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * 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.

We could maybe at least start with "pc-0.10", and maybe also "pc-0.11"
... if nobody complains afterwards, we can get rid of the other pc-0.x
machines later with QEMU 4.0 (or so).

 Thomas