Re: [kvm-devel] [Qemu-devel] Merging KVM QEMU changes upstream

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Paul Brook wrote:
>> Is this a reasonable merge strategy?  We won't introduce regressions but
>> I can't guarantee these new things will work cross-architecture.
>>     
>
> I think it depends to some extent whether things will need rewriting to be 
> made cross-architecture. In particular if this requires interface changes.  
> This means either breaking existing guests, or having to support both 
> interfaces.
>   

That's a reasonable stance to take.  I don't think anything in the tree 
right now presents that problem.  I'll start sending out some patches 
and if you have specific concerns, we can talk about them 1-by-1.

> e.g. the extboot stuff seems like something that should be usable by all 
> targets, except that the current interface looks like it's inherently x86 
> specific.
>   

Well with extboot in particular, the only interface is between the 
extboot option ROM and QEMU and I don't think that breaking that 
interface will matter much in practice.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
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