Re: [Qemu-devel] vga-pci and MMIO BAR

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Wed, 2012-07-25 at 20:08 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 
> For the benefit of the list, Ben didn't know that we could just add a
> qdev property to control whether the MMIO BAR was visible making it
> just
> a tiny bit of global magic in the old PC machine models.
> 
> PPC still doesn't do versioning of machine models.  Ya'll probably
> should spend some time looking at what's done for the PC machine types
> and start doing the same for spapr.

For macs, we probably want to have a big overhaul/cleanup day, and just
make them look closer to a real piece of HW, no need to version them. I
want to make a proper G5 model one of these days.

For spapr, it does make some amount of sense to version it, I'll talk to
David about it.

Cheers,
Ben.