Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]

Mark McLoughlin
2009-06-15T10:11:32Z

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 10:58 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
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> >> I think the point is that you don't need version numbers if you have a
> >> proper device tree.
> >>
> >
> > How do you add a new attribute to the device tree and, when a supplied
> > device tree lacking said attribute, distinguish between a device tree
> > from an old version of qemu (i.e. use the old default) and a partial
> > device tree from the VM manager (i.e. use the new default) ?
> >
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> -baseline 0.10

That's a version number :-)

(I was responding to Anthony's "you don't need a version number")

Cheers,
Mark.