From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bI5Q1-0005H9-Sr for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:40:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bI5Pz-0004Bs-GS for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 22:40:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:43:15 +1000 From: David Gibson Message-ID: <20160629014315.GD8885@voom.fritz.box> References: <1467041915-19784-1-git-send-email-marcel@redhat.com> <1467041915-19784-6-git-send-email-marcel@redhat.com> <20160628025741.GU4242@voom.fritz.box> <57723058.7090900@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="VMt1DrMGOVs3KQwf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <57723058.7090900@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 5/5] machine: remove iommu property List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Marcel Apfelbaum Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, ehabkost@redhat.com, pbonzini@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, davidkiarie4@gmail.com, peterx@redhat.com, bd.aviv@gmail.com, jan.kiszka@web.de, agraf@suse.de, qemu-ppc@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com --VMt1DrMGOVs3KQwf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:07:52AM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > On 06/28/2016 05:57 AM, David Gibson wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 06:38:35PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote: > > > Since iommu devices can be created with '-device' there is > > > no need to keep iommu as machine and mch property. > >=20 > > Doesn't this break backwards compatibility? > >=20 >=20 >=20 > Hi David, >=20 > Intel IOMMU was a kind of POC until recent development. > The new IOMMU features will require more command line options, > so even if we keep the machine property around, it can't be really used. >=20 > More on this was discussed in a prev thread. > https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg377385.html Ok, fair enough. --=20 David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson --VMt1DrMGOVs3KQwf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJXcyezAAoJEGw4ysog2bOSUuYQAN4CIzgryTR2ronZz+w+azrZ 8OArmMaR9GZXuDR9ikKXzPRSDhF/FWStDn4/NiWPTdb3uvbk7vqva6tx/nJcHaCB u8nAFzCeJSLENnytf5z9LbPrYHb54IsAK44tsHKwQzbO98TWbBLUhbOFfE11uAPO vMAChjMo4sF6ThZGmbnme1tOOmfiVV9yoalHQ5S+3SIxYH+6LUr+Q8uVG+40KoT8 lTHELK2s+ZpkxfzsEFqX2dfYVfEvYu2ygS/tmfZGA+id6oulNPlS+HkStoawNXlc fwfTQIGpbaOiP5jMeCtMkuiMePYMOd7hog1HZtqxV8ZhqIaKYSfNAnUMJuIVSRMH PKbaak7ZwV/PpYVFodi7ki+FgbFOwE9tbr99xVf+2PBkFgQUR7TLUwH8kWv75D6p 06TYsXMYgY8ObwBH1+37+VfMvNjwSojbWypgYg9K8Yn4Ipqll9LsWX6fDJCnHdMZ JrTqaotZgS/gtB/knSzGJ2pJvlJCnrPbMSXVrkGdaeHC+q3AgsGKH9fL2NrHVHV6 PQoKv9zbvLAMpVjA/yymqwVfJMOt5QzJzMliXDC0m33Zr0wdiU7gMB8CJ/WY4kPO WUIoW0NoFSf5PxSwvT0aHXgdt7I9hvDzvAbOl5XTisTVl21kvkUZvpO6JW+wQcWw cmgbyYFDkJ0lAdZExIvX =ytm/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --VMt1DrMGOVs3KQwf--