On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 08:40, Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> wrote: > > On 4/7/21 8:29 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 18:17, Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> wrote: > >> > >> The SWIFT machine never came out of the lab and we already have enough > >> AST2500 based OpenPower machines. Remove it. > >> > >> Cc: Adriana Kobylak <a...@us.ibm.com> > >> Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@kaod.org> > > > > We've had QEMU releases with this machine in them, right? > > If so, then we need to go through the usual deprecate-and-delete > > cycle, we can't just drop it immediately. > > You are right. Instead, I will add : > > mc->deprecation_reason = "redundant system. Please use a similar " > "OpenPOWER BMC, Witherspoon or Romulus.";
Don't forget to document the deprecation in docs/system/deprecated.rst. > And we will drop the swift machine in QEMU 6.3 We only have x.0, x.1, x.2 releases, so it would be 7.0. thanks -- PMM
