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diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst index da2e6fe63d..cb1ec72347 100644 --- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst +++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst @@ -20,6 +20,20 @@ they were first deprecated in the 2.10.0 release. What follows is a list of all features currently marked as deprecated. +Build options +------------- + +``gprof`` builds (since 8.0) +'''''''''''''''''''''''''''' + +The ``--enable-gprof`` configure setting relies on compiler +instrumentation to gather its data which can distort the generated +profile. As other non-instrumenting tools are available that give a +more holistic view of the system with non-instrumented binaries we are +deprecating the build option and no longer defend it in CI. The +``--enable-gcov`` build option remains for analysis test case +coverage. + System emulator command line arguments -------------------------------------- @@ -246,15 +260,6 @@ full SCSI support. Use virtio-scsi instead when SCSI passthrough is required. Note this also applies to ``-device virtio-blk-pci,scsi=on|off``, which is an alias. -``-device sga`` (since 6.2) -^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ - -The ``sga`` device loads an option ROM for x86 targets which enables -SeaBIOS to send messages to the serial console. SeaBIOS 1.11.0 onwards -contains native support for this feature and thus use of the option -ROM approach is obsolete. The native SeaBIOS support can be activated -by using ``-machine graphics=off``. - ``-device nvme-ns,eui64-default=on|off`` (since 7.1) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |