Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 01/10] ide: Break all non-qdevified controllers

[Peter Maydell]

On 18 December 2012 12:44, Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> Peter Maydell <address@hidden> writes:
>> We really need a better way to mark devices as "obsolete, will be
>> removed/broken/etc in a future version"...
>
> Yes, we do.
>
> These devices, however, are a slightly different case: "need
> maintenance, will be removed unless they get it".  I've asked for them
> to be updated on several occasions, on the list[*], and in person at the
> last three KVM Forums.

My concern is basically that I suspect there's a user community
out there that doesn't necessarily read the list or go to KVM Forum.
I actually have no idea which of the various elderly ARM boards are
really used and which we could just delete. If back in July we'd
marked the relevant boards as "this may disappear in the next version"
we might have got some feedback about if anybody was actually using
tosa, spitz, etc.

> Having your board in the tree is a privilege, not a right.  You earn the
> privilege by doing your share of the work.

I agree completely with this.

-- PMM