Re: [Qemu-devel] Last Call for 1.5 before Hard Freeze

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 06/05/2013 23:07, Jordan Justen ha scritto:
> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 1:41 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Il 06/05/2013 22:31, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>>> Jordan Justen <jljusten@gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 7:42 AM, Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>> I believe I have processed all of the outstanding pull requests and
>>>>> patches tagged for 1.5.  If there are any other patches or pull requests
>>>>> you would like to be considered, please respond to this note with a
>>>>> pointer to the patch or make sure you send it out tagged with 'for-1.5'
>>>>> no later than 5pm US/Eastern.
>>>>
>>>> Is there a chance of including the KVM PC flash series in 1.5?
>>>> Unfortunately, I'm assuming no given the timing.
>>>
>>> I think we're going to need to delay it.  Did we ever come to a
>>> consensus about what to do on older kernels?
>>
>> Yes, the patches only use the new feature is -pflash is given on the
>> command line.  memory_region_set_readonly is only used in a few places,
>> so I think this series could go in; it is a fix for a TCG-mode regression.
>>
>> I'm curious however if it causes -M isapc to regress, because in 1.4 it
>> works only in KVM mode, not in TCG mode.
> 
> It looks like isapc has always set rom_only to 1, meaning it never
> should have supported PC flash. So, I hope isapc didn't ever have any
> noticeable behavior change due to the PC flash feature.

The change would be because you now implement
memory_region_set_readonly.  That's the "dangerous" part of the series.

Paolo