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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:55:58 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3
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To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 20:27 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
>   
> = Solution - Separate configuration from compat hints =
>
> As I suggested before:
>
>   - Allow the VM manager to dump compat hints; this would be an opaque 
>     file format, more like the savevm format than a config file
>   

How is compat hints different from a device tree?

In my mind, that's what compat hints is.  I don't see another sane way 
to implement it.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori