On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 01:34:10PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
On Thu, Nov 21, 2024 at 05:52:41PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
Gerd Hoffmann (2): drop obsolete acpi table code drop acpi tables and hex includes
Thanks for working on this. I wonder if we should disable it by default in "make menuconfig" for a year or so prior to full removal?
Well, I think the only thing this code does at this point is confusing people.
I also have a small compatibility story: seabios got build-in serial console support a while back. We never managed to add some kind of automatic switch-over from sgabios rom though (there only is a sanity check to make sure they are not both active). So the code got little actual usage for quite a while. Roughly five years later qemu and libvirt did a hard switch-over from sgabios to the seabios build-in serial console. No compatibility problems.
The qemu versions which depend on this code are more than ten years old meanwhile ...
take care, Gerd