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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [PATCH] don't expose pvpanic device in
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>, Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>, seabios@seabios.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Andreas =?utf-8?Q?F=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 11:33:10AM +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 10:21:52AM +0300, Gleb Natapov wrote:
> > > If you see a mouse in a room, how likely is it that there's
> > > a single mouse there?
> > > 
> > > This is a PV technology which to me looks like it was
> > > rushed through and not only set on by default, but
> > > without a way to disable it - apparently on the assumption
> > > there's 0 chance it can cause any damage. Now that
> > > we do know the chance it's not there, why not go back
> > > to the standard interface, and why not give
> > > users a chance to enable/disable it?
> > You should be able to disable it with: -device pvpanic,ioport=0
> 
> Doesn't work for me.

The internal pvpanic can be disabled by -global pvpanic.ioport=0.
-device pvpanic,ioport=0 just adds another pvpanic device.