Am 16.12.2011 19:08, schrieb Anthony Liguori: > I notice that these two machines have seem to have never really been touched > other than tree-wide refactoring since their introduction. Googling for the > machine types doesn't hit any user questions or comments about the machine > types. > > For the most part, the devices haven't been converted to qdev and are actually > the only remaining PCI devices that haven't been. > > To me this indicates that the code currently isn't being used by anyone. I > can do the qdev conversions if it is, but as far as I can tell, it's just bit > rotting right now. > > Is this accurate? Can we remove this code? If there is future interest here, > it's easy enough to revert this, fix up the code, and resubmit.
No. There's an easy explanation why you might not find much mentions of the machine names: g3beige (ppc_oldworld.c) is the default for qemu-system-ppc, and mac99 (ppc_newworld.c) is the default for qemu-system-ppc64. If there's something ppc you'd like to remove then I would be open about discussing the current ppc_prep.c machine but not its infrastructure (prep_pci etc. - there we started a qdev'ification) as that's needed for 40p and bebox machines. I was holding back any refactorings while MemoryRegion API was a moving target and now QOM didn't seem inviting either. ;) Andreas
