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docs/about/deprecated.rst: document isapc deprecation for modern x86 CPU models

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Add a new paragraph in the "Backwards compatibility" section documenting that
using modern x86 CPU models with the isapc machine is deprecated, and will be
rejected in a future release.

Signed-off-by: Mark Cave-Ayland <mark.caveayland@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251023142926.964718-3-mark.caveayland@nutanix.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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@ -544,6 +544,20 @@ available firmwares that are using the current (wrong) name. The
property is kept as is in 9.1, together with "riscv,delegation", to
give more time for firmware developers to change their code.
x86 "isapc" board use of modern x86 CPUs (since 10.2)
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
The "isapc" board represents a historical x86 ISA PC and is intended for
older 32-bit x86 CPU models, defaulting to a 486 CPU model. Previously it
was possible (but non-sensical) to specify a more modern x86 CPU, including
``-cpu host`` or ``-cpu max`` even if the features were incompatible with many
of the intended guest OSs.
If the user requests a modern x86 CPU model (i.e. not one of ``486``,
``athlon``, ``kvm32``, ``pentium``, ``pentium2``, ``pentium3``or ``qemu32``)
a warning will be displayed until a future QEMU version when such CPUs will
be rejected.
Migration
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