On 09/03/2017 09:53, Jason Wang wrote: > > > On 2017年03月09日 16:50, Thomas Huth wrote: >> On 09.03.2017 03:21, Jason Wang wrote: >>> >>> On 2017年03月08日 19:22, Thomas Huth wrote: >>>> On 08.03.2017 11:03, Peter Maydell wrote: >>>>> On 8 March 2017 at 09:26, Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com> wrote: >>>>>> But anyway, the more important thing that keeps me concerned is: >>>>>> Someone >>>>>> once told me that we should get rid of old parameters and interfaces >>>>>> (like HMP commands) primarily only when we're changing to a new major >>>>>> version number. As you all know, QEMU has a lot of legacy options, >>>>>> which >>>>>> are likely rather confusing than helpful for the new users nowadays, >>>>>> e.g. things like the "-net channel" option (which is fortunately even >>>>>> hardly documented), but maybe also even the whole vlan/hub concept in >>>>>> the net code, or legacy parameters like "-usbdevice". If we switch to >>>>>> version 3.0, could we agree to remove at least some of them? >>>>> I think if we are going to deprecate and remove options we need >>>>> a clear transition plan for doing so, which means at least one >>>>> release where options are "still works, but warn that they >>>>> are going away with pointer to documentation or similar info >>>>> about their replacement syntax", before actually dropping them. >>>> Yes, that's certainly a good idea. But as Daniel suggested in his mail, >>>> I think we should also have the rule that the option should be marked as >>>> deprecated in multiple releases first - so that the users have a chance >>>> to speak up before something gets really removed (otherwise the option >>>> could be removed right on the first day after the initial release with >>>> the deprecation message, so there is no time for the user to notice this >>>> and complain). Not sure whether we need three releases, as Daniel >>>> suggested, though, but if that's common sense, that's fine for me, too. >>>> >>>> Anyway, I've now started a Wiki page where we could track the removal of >>>> deprecated interfaces: >>>> >>>> http://wiki.qemu-project.org/Features/LegacyRemoval >>>> >>>> Feedback / updates / addition of other legacy interfaces is welcome! >>>> >>>> Thomas >>>> >>> I think we may want to add mipsnet to the list too. It's kernel driver >>> was removed about 3 years ago. >> But that's still the default network of the "mipssim" machine ... >> is that machine considered as deprecated, too? >> >> Thomas > > I think so, according to [1], it was deprecated. > > [1] https://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/MIPSsim > > Thanks
Indeed but we still use the platform to verify architectural compatibilities even for newer MIPS architectures. Regards, Yongbok
