Bug 1995819

Summary: RFE: Remove ac97 audio support from QEMU
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Reporter: Klaus Heinrich Kiwi <kkiwi>
Component: qemu-kvmAssignee: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel>
qemu-kvm sub component: Audio QA Contact: Guo, Zhiyi <zhguo>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE Docs Contact:
Severity: medium    
Priority: high CC: coli, jherrman, jinzhao, juzhang, kraxel, mrezanin, virt-maint, ymankad, zhguo
Version: 9.0Keywords: FutureFeature, Triaged
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Fixed In Version: qemu-kvm-6.0.0-13.el9 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2021-12-07 21:20:54 UTC Type: Feature Request
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Description Klaus Heinrich Kiwi 2021-08-19 20:00:19 UTC 
Description of problem:
Remove the ac97 audio device from QEMU builds, as it hasn't been the default and there are better alternatives to it (hda implementations, such asich9, ich6)
Comment 7 Klaus Heinrich Kiwi 2021-08-25 12:56:31 UTC 
Gerd is telling me that this is done in C9S, so perhaps we should use ITM26 and set the status?
Comment 10 Guo, Zhiyi 2021-08-27 14:40:59 UTC 
Test against qemu-kvm-6.0.0-12.el9.x86_64:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -device ? | grep -i ac97
name "AC97", bus PCI, alias "ac97", desc "Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio"
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -device ac97
VNC server running on ::1:5900

Test against qemu-kvm-6.0.0-13.el9.x86_64:
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -device ? | grep -i ac97
(empty)
# /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -device ac97
qemu-kvm: -device ac97: 'ac97' (alias 'AC97') is not a valid device model name

So ac97 is disabled now
Comment 11 Yanan Fu 2021-08-30 05:37:35 UTC 
QE bot(pre verify): Set 'Verified:Tested,SanityOnly' as gating/tier1 test pass.
Comment 14 Guo, Zhiyi 2021-08-30 06:04:44 UTC 
Verified per comment 10