From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47030) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCPVQ-00007W-RD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:45:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCPVJ-000574-CC for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:45:04 -0400 Received: from david.siemens.de ([192.35.17.14]:53719) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XCPVI-00056o-Pl for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 30 Jul 2014 04:44:57 -0400 Message-ID: <53D8B07D.4080705@siemens.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 10:44:45 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <7ad47377014a7035f4abaf6d989d34bc6885bbfd.1406703720.git.jan.kiszka@siemens.com> <53D8AFBE.2060901@alex.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <53D8AFBE.2060901@alex.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] pc: Create 2.2 machine type List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Alex Bligh , "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Paolo Bonzini , qemu-devel On 2014-07-30 10:41, Alex Bligh wrote: > On 30/07/2014 08:02, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Yet identical to 2.1. > > If it's *really* identical to 2.1, are we going to add the > 2.2 machine type to 2.1 as well, so that things that > have difficulty using different source and destination > machine types can migrate from 2.2 to 2.1? > > Or am I missing the point and is the issue that 2.2 > is actually different to 2.1, not in the machine > type definition, but in what is sent within the > migrated data? If so, a commit message to this > effect might be helpful. See patch 3 for the (current) motivation of this patch. Maybe more will come as 2.2 evolves. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SES-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux