Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] pc: Fix disabling of vapic for compat PC models

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2014 at 09:01:59AM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote:
> We used to be able to address both the QEMU and the KVM APIC via "apic".
> This doesn't work anymore. So we need to use their parent class to turn
> off the vapic on machines that should not expose them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>



OK so this is intended for 2.2?

In that case, how about creating a macro with type name,
and using that? This way things don't break if we rename
something again.

> ---
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
> index 9694f88..73ba77d 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
> @@ -645,7 +645,7 @@ static QEMUMachine pc_machine_v1_1 = {
>              .property = "class",\
>              .value    = stringify(PCI_CLASS_MEMORY_RAM),\
>          },{\
> -            .driver   = "apic",\
> +            .driver   = "apic-common",\
>              .property = "vapic",\
>              .value    = "off",\
>          },{\
> -- 
> 1.8.1.1.298.ge7eed54