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Deprecate rtl8139 NIC in QEMU

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      QEMU currently ships the following NICs for x86_64 targets

      • rtl8139
      • e1000
      • e1000e
      • virtio-net

      The e1000 generation of NICs has existed since at least 2002:

      https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git/commit/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h?id=87a54bc31a96b8814e6dca2b3992c81b141115db

      IOW, the e1000+e1000e pair should be more than sufficient for the "ancient non-virtio NIC" use case.

      There does not appear to be any compelling reason to continue supporting the rtl8139 NIC, so we should deprecate it in RHEL-10, with a view to deleting it in RHEL-11.

              jasowang1@redhat.com Jason Wang
              rhn-engineering-berrange Daniel Berrangé
              virt-maint virt-maint
              Lei Yang Lei Yang
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