On 29.06.2017 17:06, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > > On 29/06/2017 10:46, Thomas Huth wrote: >>> Patches 7,8 are the removal, marked RFC... let's debate! >> ... but NACK for a direct removal. Common sense is to make obsolete >> features as deprecated first and then wait for 2 public releases before >> the final removal, so that users still have a chance to speak up in case >> they still need the feature and are willing to maintain it. > > I think this is a slightly different case than what is in > http://wiki.qemu.org/Features/LegacyRemoval. > > TCI is enabled only with a specific configure argument if your machine > is not supported by TCG. This would break _build_ configurations, not > user configurations. It's a remote possibility that users are building > their own QEMU, with TCI enabled, to work around a TCG bug. So we can > be more speedy in removing the code.
You never know ... it's unlikely, but there might be people around who run configure with "--enable-tcg-interpreter" on purpose. And why the hurry for removing this? It's been around in the current shape since years, so waiting for two more releases does not hurt, does it? Thomas
