Am 26. März 2024 13:29:58 UTC schrieb "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@xxxxxxxxxx>: >Hi Igor, > >On 26/3/24 14:08, Thomas Huth wrote: >> >> s/iaspc/isapc/ in the subject >> >> On 26/03/2024 13.51, Igor Mammedov wrote: >>> ISAPC machine was introduced 25 years ago and it's a lot of time since >>> such machine was around with real ISA only PC hardware practically defunct. >>> Also it's slowly bit-rots (for example: I was able to boot RHEL6 on RHEL9 host >>> in only TCG mode, while in KVM mode it hung in the middle of boot) > >I'm quite opposed to this patch. QEMU models various very-old / >defunct hardware. I'm pretty sure Bernhard and myself are OK to >keep maintaining it, besides we are working in separating it from >the i440fx+piix machine. Yes, I'd rather keep maintaining the isapc machine and separating it from the i440fx machine seems like a good idea to me. I'm confident that we can work out a way that allows for moving forward the pc-pci machines while keeping the isapc machine from getting into the way too much. Best regards, Bernhard > Also, this machine is particularly >interesting for my single-binary experiments. > >Where I agree is we should stop reporting "KVM on ISA/PC machine" >as supported. > >Regards, > >Phil. > >>> Rather than spending time on fixing 'the oldest' no longer tested machine type, >>> deprecate it so we can clean up QEMU code from legacy fixups and hopefully >>> make it easier to follow. >>> >>> Folks who have to use ancient guest that requires ISAPC can still >>> use older QEMU to play with it. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@xxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> docs/about/deprecated.rst | 7 +++++++ >>> hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 1 + >>> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst >>> index 7b548519b5..5708296991 100644 >>> --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst >>> +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst >>> @@ -226,6 +226,13 @@ These old machine types are quite neglected nowadays and thus might have >>> various pitfalls with regards to live migration. Use a newer machine type >>> instead. >>> +``isapc`` (since 9.0) >>> +''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' >>> + >>> +These old machine type are quite neglected nowadays and thus might have >> >> "This old machine type is ..." ? >> >>> +various pitfalls with regards to live migration. Use a newer machine type >>> +instead. >> >> I doubt that isapc could ever be used reliably for live migration, since it's an unversioned machine type, so I think it would be better to not mention live migration here. >> >> Thomas >> >> > _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
