Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?

[Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru>]

On 06/24/2014 09:15 PM, Andreas Färber wrote:
> Am 24.06.2014 07:21, schrieb Paolo Bonzini:
>> Il 24/06/2014 00:33, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
>>>
>>> I actually wonder if it is not going to be "-machine pseries-2.0" then
>>> what
>>> will it look like? "-machine pseries,qemucompat=2.0"?
>>
>> I would keep using pseries-2.0.
>>
>> There might be some class hierarchy, like
>>
>>    spapr-machine
>>      spapr-machine-2.2
>>        spapr-machine-2.1
>>
>> I don't know what Andreas had in mind though, but you can check out
>> Eduardo's patches for QOMifying the PC machines and take inspiration
>> from there.  That's probably a safe bet.
> 
> That's pretty much what I meant, yes. (Eduardo, not Marcel then. :))

Aha. Eduardo, okaaaay :)

I looked there, I fail to see why I should not cut-n-paste PC_COMPAT_XXX
stuff to pseries and how that patchset helps me at all so any clues are
very appreciated :)


> Not sure about spapr-machine vs. spapr-machine-2.2, but
> pseries-2.1-machine inheriting from and overriding properties of
> pseries[-2.2]-machine definitely. Whatever works.


-- 
Alexey