Re: [RFC PATCH-for-8.1] accel: Remove HAX accelerator

On 24/6/23 01:08, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote: > 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(a)linaro.org&gt; > --- > diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst > b/docs/about/removed-features.rst > index 5b258b446b..cc8a1e38a9 100644 > --- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst > +++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst > @@ -659,15 +659,18 @@ Use ``Icelake-Server`` instead. >   System accelerators >   ------------------- > -Userspace local APIC with KVM (x86, removed 8.0) > +Userspace local APIC with KVM (x86, removed in 8.0) >   '''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Oops I didn't mean to commit this line. The doc won't build with padding.