Re: [PATCH 1/2] pc_piix: remove pc-i440fx-1.4 up to pc-i440fx-1.7

[Thomas Huth]

On 22/09/2023 11.19, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il ven 22 set 2023, 08:43 Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com 
> <mailto:thuth@redhat.com>> ha scritto:
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>     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?)
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> 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