On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 03:00:41PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 01:34:10PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 05:52:41PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Gerd Hoffmann (2):
> > >   drop obsolete acpi table code
> > >   drop acpi tables and hex includes
> > 
> > Thanks for working on this.  I wonder if we should disable it by
> > default in "make menuconfig" for a year or so prior to full removal?
> 
> Well, I think the only thing this code does at this point is confusing
> people.

Okay.  I'm fine with that as well.

Cheers,
-Kevin


> 
> I also have a small compatibility story:  seabios got build-in serial
> console support a while back.  We never managed to add some kind of
> automatic switch-over from sgabios rom though (there only is a sanity
> check to make sure they are not both active).  So the code got little
> actual usage for quite a while.  Roughly five years later qemu and
> libvirt did a hard switch-over from sgabios to the seabios build-in
> serial console.  No compatibility problems.
> 
> The qemu versions which depend on this code are more than ten years
> old meanwhile ...
> 
> take care,
>   Gerd
> 
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