Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/8] removal of tci (tcg interpreter)

[Peter Maydell]

On 29 June 2017 at 17:07, Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden> wrote:
> The flipside is that even if we delete it, if someone does suddenly
> care, the code is still there in git & easy to undelete again. Given
> that we believe there are zero users, it is known broken in many
> ways, and TCG provides a working alternative, I don't see a strong
> reason to not just kill it right away.

"zero users" is quite a strong and hard to prove statement.
I don't really see a reason not to do at least one release
of deprecate-and-warn before we drop it.

(People do occasionally do weird stuff with TCI, eg http://qira.me/
involves a QEMU fork with a very hacked about TCI.)

thanks
-- PMM