Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V1 0/2] Versioning ARM virt machine types

[Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Jun 07, 2016 at 04:17:09PM +0100, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 11 March 2016 at 17:36, Wei Huang <wei@redhat.com> wrote:
> > We start to see more features been added to ARM virtual machine models.
> > For the purpose of backward compatibility (e.g. migration), it is time
> > to consider versioning machine types for ARM VMs. As a beginning step, this
> > patchset defines an abstract machine type for ARM VMs. The current
> > "virt" machine is re-written based on this new abstract type accordingly.
> > These patches have been verified by booting existing VMs.
> >
> > RFC->V1:
> >  * Rename the machine type to "virt-2.6", matching the imminent QEMU version
> >  * Remove mc->is_default (Peter's comment)
> 
> So is there a plan to provide a virt-2.7 for the next release?

Yup. I was planning to send it as part of a small "hw/arm/virt: add
cpu-map" series I pretty much have ready, but didn't finish and send
yet because I got distracted working on the larger plan (among other
things). The motivation (larger plan) for cpu-map is full cpu-topology
configuration, but working on that has led to an smp parameter rework
RFC (hoping to send this week...) Wei or I can just send the virt-2.7
patch now though to get it done sooner than later.

Thanks,
drew