Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] q35: Remove old machines and unused compat code

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 02:02:08PM -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> This is another attempt to remove old q35 machine code. Now I am
> also removing unused compat code to demonstrate the benefit of
> throwing away the old code that nobody uses.

The same thing I said applies - we don't know that nobody uses old q35
machine types.
We do know we don't need to migrate to/from them,
so we can drop compat code.
But please add aliases so people can still start these machines.


> 
> Eduardo Habkost (5):
>   q35: Remove old machine versions
>   machine: Remove no_tco field
>   ich9: Remove enable_tco arguments from init functions
>   q35: Remove unused q35-acpi-dsdt.aml file
>   q35: No need to check gigabyte_align
> 
>  Makefile                  |   2 +-
>  hw/acpi/ich9.c            |   8 +--
>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c          | 176 
> +---------------------------------------------
>  hw/isa/lpc_ich9.c         |   4 +-
>  include/hw/acpi/ich9.h    |   1 -
>  include/hw/boards.h       |   1 -
>  include/hw/i386/ich9.h    |   2 +-
>  pc-bios/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml | Bin 7344 -> 0 bytes
>  8 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 pc-bios/q35-acpi-dsdt.aml
> 
> -- 
> 2.1.0