On 29/03/2017 18:46, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: >> 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.
Some data: - dropping 0.12, 0.13 _and_ isapc would let us kill the code for rombar=0 (i.e. where QEMU copies ROM BARs directly to low memory). - the oldest versions in use are probably 0.12 (CentOS 6) and 1.0 (Ubuntu 12.04) - migration from old versions is broken in various ways from at least QEMU 1.2 and older. Paolo
