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Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, ajax@redhat.com, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 16:08 +0300, Dor Laor wrote:

> IMHO since there is not good way to allow have a real stable guest
> abi, these patches should be committed

Agree - anything reasonable we've come up with so far won't help with
the 0.10 to 0.11 transition, so unless we delay the patches to 0.12,
there's no benefit to blocking them.

> (with a cmdline option).

We don't need more unused command line options in qemu :-)

Cheers,
Mark.