Re: [PATCH for-9.0] docs/about: Mark the iaspc machine type as deprecated
On 26/3/24 14:37, Thomas Huth wrote:
On 26/03/2024 14.29, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> 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. 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.
+1
Rough plan is to extract 'isapc' machine from PCMachineClass,
having the latter becoming smth like PcPciMachineClass, on
top of:
https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20240305134221.30924-1-philmd@linaro.org/
lol I didn't remember I posted a similar patch =)