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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: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, 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 wrote:
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> Certainly preferable to -baseline.
>
>> This is pretty easy to maintain with config files.
>
> Let's not tie the two together.

I mentioned it because it suggests a good transition.  We at least have 
to think through how things map to the post-config file world regardless 
of whether that's a few months from now or a decade :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori