From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>, "P J P" <ppandit@redhat.com>
Cc: libvir-list@redhat.com, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2018 12:03:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4e377111-8b95-c65a-e456-a7a8a4580ecb@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181026095943.GG31390@redhat.com>
On 26/10/2018 11:59, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> I should also say that QEMU as an upstream project has multiple goals.
> Running KVM guests with modern PV hardware is only one of them, albeit
> a widely used one. Being able to run old legacy OS with old hardware,
> and running arbitrary embedded boards/devices with emulation are both
> use cases that QEMU project aims to address. To eliminate all the old
> "crufty" device emulation in name of improving security for KVM, would
> be to eliminate core use cases of the project. THis is why we're trying
> to persue the direction of making it easier for vendors to disable
> features and devices they don't wish to support & thus limit their
> downstream CVE exposure.
Indeed. If we had to deprecate a feature just because it had an
off-by-one bug, no C program would grow beyond 1000 lines of code...
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-26 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-25 8:52 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] RfC: add support for deprecated devices Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-25 8:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] qdev: add deprecation_reason to DeviceClass Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-25 10:50 ` P J P
2018-10-25 11:12 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-10-29 9:19 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-25 8:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] adlib: mark as insecure and deprecated Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-25 10:56 ` P J P
2018-10-25 20:40 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-26 7:08 ` P J P
2018-10-26 9:54 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-26 12:35 ` P J P
2018-10-25 11:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-10-25 20:27 ` Thomas Huth
2018-10-26 8:48 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-10-26 9:34 ` P J P
2018-10-26 10:01 ` Paolo Bonzini
2018-10-26 11:53 ` P J P
2018-10-29 9:05 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-25 8:52 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] cirrus: mark as deprecated Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-25 10:59 ` P J P
2018-10-25 11:17 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2018-10-25 20:28 ` Thomas Huth
2018-10-25 20:37 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-26 7:03 ` P J P
2018-10-26 9:42 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-26 9:59 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-26 10:03 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2018-10-26 14:14 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-26 18:56 ` P J P
2018-10-26 10:40 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2018-10-26 13:25 ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Christian Borntraeger
2018-10-26 8:48 ` Cole Robinson
2018-10-26 9:43 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-10-29 9:12 ` [Qemu-devel] " Gerd Hoffmann
2018-10-30 18:00 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
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