From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Su9eW-0006Di-Ei for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:02:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Su9eV-00073A-KS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:01:56 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:46197) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Su9eV-00072x-BY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2012 18:01:55 -0400 Message-ID: <1343253711.3715.52.camel@pasglop> From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2012 08:01:51 +1000 In-Reply-To: <500FFBA7.80700@redhat.com> References: <1343188660.3715.41.camel@pasglop> <500FC9F8.6010002@redhat.com> <1343213618.3715.48.camel@pasglop> <500FEB07.5010009@redhat.com> <1343223712.3715.50.camel@pasglop> <500FFBA7.80700@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] vga-pci and MMIO BAR List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 16:59 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote: > > Why ? Who cares ? Especially with vga -std which nobody uses in > practice > > on x86... > > We'll find out who cares when we break it. Chances are pretty much close to 0, especially adding a BAR ... do we even use vga "std" on anything ? > We have a system in place to prevent intentional breakage, let's use > it. And that system is never improve a device ? :-) Or am I missing something ? Cheers, Ben