Re: [PATCH RFC] virtio-spec: flexible configuration layout

Sasha Levin
2012-06-18T12:04:18Z

On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 14:54 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 02:36:43PM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Nov 2011, Sasha Levin wrote:
> > >They don't exist in kernel code either, for same reason as above.
> > >
> > >Nothing will break if we remove it since no one really used it, we were
> > >probably the first and only implementation of the spec which considered
> > >them :)
> >
> > As long as we are able to run older versions of the KVM tool with
> > newer kernels and vice versa, I see no reason why we can't drop
> > 64-bit features from the KVM tool.
> >
> > Pekka
>
> So what happened? Did you guys do this? Need to know what to do to make
> progress. IIUC Rusty removed the new fields in 0.9.3.
> Does your tool still use them? Did any version of the tool released by
> distros do so?

Yup, they were removed quite a while ago.