The next commit will add feature flags to enum members. There's a
problem, though: query-qmp-schema shows an enum type's members as an
array of member names (SchemaInfoEnum member @values). If it showed
an array of objects with a name member, we could simply add more
members to these objects. Since it's just strings, we can't.
I can see three ways to correct this design mistake:
1. Do it the way we should have done it, plus compatibility goo.
We want a ['SchemaInfoEnumMember'] member in SchemaInfoEnum. Since
changing @values would be a compatibility break, add a new member
@members instead.
@values is now redundant. In my testing, output of
qemu-system-x86_64's query-qmp-schema grows by 11% (18.5KiB).
We can deprecate @values now and drop it later. This will break
outmoded clients. Well-behaved clients such as libvirt are
expected to break cleanly.
2. Like 1, but omit "boring" elements of @member, and empty @member.
@values does not become redundant. @members augments it. Somewhat
cumbersome, but output of query-qmp-schema grows only as we make
enum members non-boring.
There is nothing to deprecate here.
3. Versioned query-qmp-schema.
query-qmp-schema provides either @values or @members. The QMP
client can select which version it wants. There is no redundant
output.
We can deprecate old versions and eventually drop them. This will
break outmoded clients. Breaking cleanly is easier than for 1.
While 1 and 2 operate within the common rules for compatible
evolution apply (section "Compatibility considerations" in
docs/devel/qapi-code-gen.rst), 3 bypasses them. Attractive when
operating within the rules is just too awkward. Not the case here.
This commit implements 1. Libvirt developers prefer it.
Deprecate @values in favour of @members. Since query-qmp-schema
compatibility is pretty fundamental for management applications, an
extended grace period is advised.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211025042405.3762351-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>
In the SMP configuration, we should either provide a topology
parameter with a reasonable value (greater than zero) or just
omit it and QEMU will compute the missing value.
The users shouldn't provide a configuration with any parameter
of it specified as zero (e.g. -smp 8,sockets=0) which could
possibly cause unexpected results in the -smp parsing. So we
deprecate this kind of configurations since 6.2 by adding the
explicit sanity check.
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210929025816.21076-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
At this moment we only provide one event to report a hotunplug error,
MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR. As of Linux kernel 5.12 and QEMU 6.0.0, the pseries
machine is now able to report unplug errors for other device types, such
as CPUs.
Instead of creating a (device_type)_UNPLUG_ERROR for each new device,
create a generic DEVICE_UNPLUG_GUEST_ERROR event that can be used by all
guest side unplug errors in the future. This event has a similar API as
the existing DEVICE_DELETED event, always providing the QOM path of the
device and dev->id if there's any.
With this new generic event, MEM_UNPLUG_ERROR is now marked as deprecated.
Reviewed-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210907004755.424931-6-danielhb413@gmail.com>
[dwg: Correct missing ')' in stubs/qdev.c]
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
I was looking for such documentation, but couldn't find it. Add it to
the build-platform.rst document.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Use a standard heading format for the index.rst file in a directory.
Using overlines makes it clear that individual documents can use e.g.
=== for chapter titles and --- for section titles, as suggested in the
Linux kernel guidelines[1]. They could do it anyway, because documents
included in a toctree are parsed separately and therefore are not tied
to the same conventions for headings. However, keeping some consistency is
useful since sometimes files are included from multiple places.
[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/doc-guide/sphinx.html
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
It's not that much complicated to type "-display sdl" or "-display curses",
so we should not clutter our main option name space with such simple
wrapper options and rather present the users with a concise interface
instead. Thus let's deprecate the "-sdl" and "-curses" wrapper options now.
Message-Id: <20210825092023.81396-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The alt_grab and ctrl_grab parameter of the -display sdl option prevent
the QAPIfication of the "sdl" part of the -display option, so we should
eventually remove them. And since this feature is also rather niche anyway,
we should not clutter the top-level option list with these, so let's
also deprecate the "-alt-grab" and the "-ctrl-grab" options while we're
at it.
Once the deprecation period of "alt_grab" and "ctrl_grab" is over, we
then can finally switch the -display sdl option to use QAPI internally,
too.
Message-Id: <20210825092023.81396-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mahmoud Mandour <ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Message-Id: <20210802134414.52037-1-ma.mandourr@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
[AJB: fixed up move of deprecated.rst]
Signed-off-by: Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org>
Remove the raspi2/raspi3 machine aliases,
deprecated since commit 155e1c82ed.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
Message-id: 20210827060815.2384760-3-f4bug@amsat.org
Reviewed-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Some of the removed CLI options have been added to the wrong section
in the "Removed features" chapter - they've been put into the
"Related binaries" section instead. Move them now into the correct
"System emulator command line arguments" section.
Message-Id: <20210818112908.102205-1-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Commit 29e0447551
(docs/about/removed-features: Document removed CLI options from QEMU v3.1)
has recorded some CLI options as replaced/removed from QEMU v3.1, but one
of the subjects has missed the release record. Let's fix it.
Reported-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210823030005.165668-4-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
There is a mixture of "since/removed in X.Y" vs "since/removed in X.Y.Z"
in the subjects in deprecated.rst/removed-features.rst. It will be better
to use an unified format. It seems unlikely that we will ever deprecate
something in a stable release, and even more unlikely that we'll remove
something in one, so the short versions look like the thing we want to
standardize on.
So here we unify the subject format in deprecated.rst to "since X.Y", and
unify the subject format in removed-features.rst to "removed in X.Y".
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210823030005.165668-3-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
There are two places describing the same thing about deprecation
of invalid topologies of -smp CLI, so remove the duplicated one.
Signed-off-by: Yanan Wang <wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20210823030005.165668-2-wangyanan55@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These machines had been removed in the QEMU v2.6 up to 4.0 time frame.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-7-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These devices had been removed/replaced in QEMU v2.12 and v4.0.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-6-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These HMP commands had been removed/replaced in QEMU v2.12. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-5-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These CLI options had been removed/replaced in QEMU v3.1. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-4-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These CLI options had been removed/replaced in QEMU v3.0. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-3-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
These CLI options had been removed/replaced in QEMU v2.12. Still, some
people might want to update from older versions to the recent QEMU version,
so we should give some recommendations for the replacements in our
documentation.
Message-Id: <20210811084103.74832-2-thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
The section describing the removed feature "-usbdevice ccid" had a
typo so the markup started with single backtick and ended with double
backtick; fix it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210726142338.31872-10-peter.maydell@linaro.org
In rST markup, single backticks `like this` represent "interpreted
text", which can be handled as a bunch of different things if tagged
with a specific "role":
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#interpreted-text
(the most common one for us is "reference to a URL, which gets
hyperlinked").
The default "role" if none is specified is "title_reference",
intended for references to book or article titles, and it renders
into the HTML as <cite>...</cite> (usually comes out as italics).
This commit fixes various places in the manual which were
using single backticks when double backticks (for literal text)
were intended, and covers those files where only one or two
instances of these errors were made.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Add some text to About to act as a brief introduction to the QEMU
manual and to make the about page a bit less of an abrupt start to
it.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-6-peter.maydell@linaro.org
Now that we have a single Sphinx manual rather than multiple manuals,
we can provide a better place for "common to all of QEMU" information
like the deprecation notices, build platforms, license information,
which we currently have in the system/ manual even though it applies
to all of QEMU.
Create a new directory about/ on the same level as system/, user/,
etc, and move these documents there.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
Message-id: 20210705095547.15790-5-peter.maydell@linaro.org
