Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 0/3] pc: Set hw_version on all machine classes

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 30/10/2015 20:36, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> In 2012, QEMU had a bug where it exposed QEMU version information
> to the guest, meaning a QEMU upgrade would expose different
> hardware to the guest OS even if the same machine-type is being
> used.
> 
> The bug was fixed by commit 93bfef4c6e4b23caea9d51e1099d06433d8835a4,
> on all machines up to pc-1.0. But we kept introducing the same
> bug on all newer machines since then. That means we are breaking
> guest ABI every time QEMU was upgraded.
> 
> Fix this by setting the hw_version on all PC machines, making
> sure the hardware won't change when upgrading QEMU.
> 
> Eduardo Habkost (3):
>   pc: Set hw_version on all machine classes
>   osdep: Rename qemu_{get,set}_version() to qemu_{,set_}hw_version()
>   megasas: Use qemu_hw_version() instead of QEMU_VERSION
> 
>  hw/arm/nseries.c     |  2 +-
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c    | 13 +++++++++++++
>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c     | 10 ++++++++++
>  hw/ide/core.c        |  2 +-
>  hw/scsi/megasas.c    |  2 +-
>  hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c   |  2 +-
>  hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c  |  2 +-
>  include/qemu/osdep.h |  4 ++--
>  target-i386/cpu.c    |  2 +-
>  util/osdep.c         | 10 +++++-----
>  vl.c                 |  2 +-
>  11 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 

Michael, is it okay for you if I merge this patch series?

Paolo