On 22/09/2023 11.19, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
Il ven 22 set 2023, 08:43 Thomas Huth <th...@redhat.com
<mailto:th...@redhat.com>> ha scritto:
While you're at it ... do we maybe want to start deprecating the next batch
of machine types already? (Say pc-i440fx-2.0 up to pc-i440fx-2.2 maybe?)
It depends on the benefit. We would have to check the compat options that
are not needed anymore, and whether they'd be something that is useful
anyway for debugging.
Also it would be useful to check if isapc can drop some of the compat code
and realign itself to the 2.0 i440fx machine in terms of QEMU-specific features.
Because of all this todo, I decided not to proceed further with
deprecations. The 128k ROM on the other hand does provide immediate benefit.
FWIW, when I was working on deprecating the old pc machine types, I
originally wanted to stop with pc-1.3 (since I was most bugged by the
different naming between "pc" and "pc-i44fx" in the help output). I then
only put the 1.4 to 1.7 machine types on the deprecation list without
anything in mind. Now this became useful for the 128k bios rework... so
maybe we should continue deprecating older machine types for other future
reworks that we don't envision yet.
Thomas
