On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 10:22:33AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> We don't want to carry along old machine types forever. If we are able to
> remove the pc machines up to 0.13 one day for example, this would allow
> us to eventually kill the code for rombar=0 (i.e. where QEMU copies ROM
> BARs directly to low memory). Everything up to pc-1.2 is also known to
> have issues with migration. So let's start with a deprecation message
> for the old machine types so that the (hopefully) few users of these old
> systems start switching over to newer machine types instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com>
I suggest changing "-machine help" too. Today it looks like this:
Supported machines are:
pc-i440fx-2.9 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.8 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of
pc-i440fx-2.10)
pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
pc-i440fx-2.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.15 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.14 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.13 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.12 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.11 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-0.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-q35-2.9 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.8 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.7 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.6 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.10)
pc-q35-2.10 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
isapc ISA-only PC
none empty machine
It could be changed to something like this:
Supported machines are:
pc-i440fx-2.9 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.8 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.2 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (alias of
pc-i440fx-2.10)
pc-i440fx-2.10 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996) (default)
pc-i440fx-2.1 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-2.0 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.7 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.6 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.5 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-i440fx-1.4 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-1.3 Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996)
pc-q35-2.9 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.8 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.7 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.6 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.5 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
pc-q35-2.4 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
q35 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) (alias of pc-q35-2.10)
pc-q35-2.10 Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
isapc ISA-only PC
none empty machine
Deprecated machines: pc-1.2, pc-1.1, pc-1.0, pc-0.15, pc-0.14, pc-0.13,
pc-0.12, pc-0.11, pc-0.10.
--
Eduardo
