docs/about/removed-features: auto-generate a note for versioned machine types

We remove versioned machine types on a fixed schedule. This allows us
to auto-generate a paragraph in the removed-features.rst document that
always has accurate version info.

Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/docs/about/removed-features.rst b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
index 790a5e481c..063284d4f8 100644
--- a/docs/about/removed-features.rst
+++ b/docs/about/removed-features.rst
@@ -981,10 +981,12 @@ from Linux in 2021, and is not supported anymore by QEMU either.
 System emulator machines
 ------------------------
 
-Note: Versioned machine types that have been introduced in a QEMU version
-that has initially been released more than 6 years before are considered
-obsolete and will be removed without further notice in this document.
-Please use newer machine types instead.
+Versioned machine types (aarch64, arm, i386, m68k, ppc64, s390x, x86_64)
+''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
+
+In accordance with our versioned machine type deprecation policy, all machine
+types with version |VER_MACHINE_DELETION_VERSION|, or older, have been
+removed.
 
 ``s390-virtio`` (removed in 2.6)
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