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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/about/deprecated.rst | 35 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/conf.py | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/devel/migration/main.rst | 3 |
3 files changed, 28 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index dfd681cd02..4fb86608e4 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -47,16 +47,6 @@ as short-form boolean values, and passed to plugins as ``arg_name=on``. However, short-form booleans are deprecated and full explicit ``arg_name=on`` form is preferred. -User-mode emulator command line arguments ------------------------------------------ - -``-p`` (since 9.0) -'''''''''''''''''' - -The ``-p`` option pretends to control the host page size. However, -it is not possible to change the host page size, and using the -option only causes failures. - ``-smp`` (Unsupported "parameter=1" SMP configurations) (since 9.0) ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' @@ -71,6 +61,16 @@ configurations (e.g. -smp drawers=1,books=1,clusters=1 for x86 PC machine) is marked deprecated since 9.0, users have to ensure that all the topology members described with -smp are supported by the target machine. +User-mode emulator command line arguments +----------------------------------------- + +``-p`` (since 9.0) +'''''''''''''''''' + +The ``-p`` option pretends to control the host page size. However, +it is not possible to change the host page size, and using the +option only causes failures. + QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands ------------------------------------ @@ -245,6 +245,21 @@ to correct issues, mostly regarding migration compatibility. These are no longer maintained and removing them will make the code easier to read and maintain. Use versions 2.12 and above as a replacement. +Arm machines ``akita``, ``borzoi``, ``cheetah``, ``connex``, ``mainstone``, ``n800``, ``n810``, ``spitz``, ``terrier``, ``tosa``, ``verdex``, ``z2`` (since 9.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +QEMU includes models of some machine types where the QEMU code that +emulates their SoCs is very old and unmaintained. This code is now +blocking our ability to move forward with various changes across +the codebase, and over many years nobody has been interested in +trying to modernise it. We don't expect any of these machines to have +a large number of users, because they're all modelling hardware that +has now passed away into history. We are therefore dropping support +for all machine types using the PXA2xx and OMAP2 SoCs. We are also +dropping the ``cheetah`` OMAP1 board, because we don't have any +test images for it and don't know of anybody who does; the ``sx1`` +and ``sx1-v1`` OMAP1 machines remain supported for now. + Backend options --------------- diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py index 1b2afa241c..aae0304ac6 100644 --- a/docs/conf.py +++ b/docs/conf.py @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ default_role = 'any' # General information about the project. project = u'QEMU' -copyright = u'2023, The QEMU Project Developers' +copyright = u'2024, The QEMU Project Developers' author = u'The QEMU Project Developers' # The version info for the project you're documenting, acts as replacement for diff --git a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst index 8024275d6d..54385a23e5 100644 --- a/docs/devel/migration/main.rst +++ b/docs/devel/migration/main.rst @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ over any transport. - file migration: do the migration using a file that is passed to QEMU by path. A file offset option is supported to allow a management application to add its own metadata to the start of the file without - QEMU interference. + QEMU interference. Note that QEMU does not flush cached file + data/metadata at the end of migration. In addition, support is included for migration using RDMA, which transports the page data using ``RDMA``, where the hardware takes care of |