On Mon, 20 Feb 2023, Bernhard Beschow wrote:
IIUC, QEMU guarantees a deprecation period for at least two major versions. So if we deprecated user-creatable piix-ide in 8.1, we are not allowed to remove it before 10.1. Let's stick to our rules to give our users a chance to adapt gracefully.
I think that's not 2 major releases just 2 releases so in your example could be removed in 9.0. qemu/docs/about/deprecated.rst says:
"The feature will remain functional for the release in which it was deprecated and one further release. After these two releases, the feature is liable to be removed."
Regards, BALATON Zoltan
