[PATCH for 8.7.0 00/20] Bump minimum supported qemu version to qemu-4.2 (part 1)

[Ján Tomko]

On a Friday in 2022, Peter Krempa wrote:
>In August Debian 10 officially reaches EOL, thus we can bump minimum
>qemu version to 4.2 which is being limited by Ubuntu and RHEL/Centos 8.
>
>QEMU-4.2 allows us to remove a big bunch of old code though. Few
>examples which this series (and the next iterations of it)  will deal
>with:
> - old auidiodev config via ENV variables
> - old-style VIRTIO tranitional setup (possibly)
> - most of legacy block device setup (upcoming series)
>
>This series is lacking the removal of Debian 10 from our CI infra
>though, I'll post that separately once I get to it.
>
>The patches can also be fetched at:
>
> git fetch https://gitlab.com/pipo.sk/libvirt.git debian-10-remove-part1
>
>as some of the pure-removal patches here will be truncated to prevent
>spamming the list.
>
>Peter Krempa (20):
>  qemuxml2(argv|xml)test: Remove 'qemu-4.1' variant of
>    'x86-kvm-32-on-64'
>  tests: qemuxml2argv: Remove pre-blockdev versions of disk-related
>    tests
>  qemuxml2argvtest: Drop 'qemu-4.1' variants of all audio tests
>  qemuxml2argvtest: Remove 'qemu-3.1' versions of
>    virtio-(non-)transitional tests
>  qemuxml2argvtest: Remove pre-qemu-4.2 versions of 'cpu-host-model'
>    test
>  qemuxml2argvtest: Remove 'qemu-4.0' version of aarch64-features-sve
>    case
>  qemuxml2argvtest: Remove 'qemu-4.0' versions of 'cpu-host-model-cmt'
>    and 'cpu-tsc-frequency'
>  tests: qemucapabilities: Remove qemu-3.1 test data
>  tests: domaincaps: Remove test data for qemu-3.1
>  qemucapabilitiestest: Remove test data for qemu-4.0
>  domaincapstest: Remove test data for qemu-4.0
>  qemucapabilitiestest: Remove test data for qemu-4.1
>  domaincapstest: Remove test data for qemu-4.1
>  qemu: Formally deprecate support for qemu < 4.2
>  qemu: command: Always assume QEMU_CAPS_AUDIODEV
>  qemu: command: Drop the code for configuring audio devices via
>    environment variables
>  qemu: command: Drop qemuBuildAudioCommandLine thin wrapper
>  qemu: validate: Remove unreachable checks for QEMU_CAPS_AUDIODEV
>  qemuxml2(argv|xml)test: Remove use of QEMU_CAPS_AUDIODEV in fake-caps
>    tests
>  qemu: capabilities: Retire QEMU_CAPS_AUDIODEV
>

Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko at redhat.com>

Jano
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