Re: [PATCH v7 6/7] mac_newworld: Deprecate mac99 "via" option

[BALATON Zoltan]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> On 4/1/23 22:59, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> > Setting emulated machine type with a property called "via" is
> > confusing users so deprecate the "via" option in favour of newly added
> > explicit machine types. The default via=cuda option is not a valid
> > config (no real Mac has this combination of hardware) so no machine
> > type could be defined for that therefore it is kept for backwards
> > compatibility with older QEMU versions for now but other options
> > resembling real machines are deprecated.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: BALATON Zoltan <balaton@eik.bme.hu>
> > ---
> >   hw/ppc/mac_newworld.c | 9 +++++++++
> >   1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
>
> Don't we need to document in the 'System emulator machines'
> section of docs/about/deprecated.rst? (maybe within a
> "machine options" subsection)

That's in patch 7 for now which contains all the docs updates in one 
patch, I can reorganise these once we decide what should each patch 
contain. Options could be to make all deprecations a single patch or 
divide it by machines or options like one patch for ppc64 mac99 another 
for via option os whatever Matk is ready to accept at the end.

Regards,
BALATON Zoltan