Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> HAX is deprecated since commits 73741fda6c ("MAINTAINERS: Abort
> HAXM maintenance") and 90c167a1da ("docs/about/deprecated: Mark
> HAXM in QEMU as deprecated"), released in v8.0.0.
>
> Per the QEMU deprecation policy, we shouldn't remove it before
> QEMU release v8.2.0. However per the latest HAXM release (v7.8),
> the latest QEMU supported is v7.2:
>
> Note: Up to this release, HAXM supports QEMU from 2.9.0 to 7.2.0.
>
> (https://github.com/intel/haxm/releases/tag/v7.8.0)
>
> The next commit (https://github.com/intel/haxm/commit/da1b8ec072)
> added:
>
> HAXM v7.8.0 is our last release and we will not accept
> pull requests or respond to issues after this.
>
> As of commit b455ce4c2f, it became very hard to build and test
> HAXM. Its previous maintainers made it clear they won't help.
> It doesn't seem to be a very good use of QEMU maintainers to
> spend their time in a dead project. Save our time by removing
> this orphan zombie code before the QEMU v8.2 release.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx>
Your argument for short-cutting the grace period is compelling.
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@xxxxxxxxxx>
