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Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:08:17 +0100
From: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Staging update (0.12 pending freeze)
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To: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
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Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> On 12/02/09 17:46, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>> If you have a pending patch that you think should be in 0.12, please
>> check to make sure it's there.
>
> A clear 'must have':
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39291/
>   Add a new machine type for qemu 0.12
>
> On top of that, to reduce irq sharing (nice to have):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39294/
>   virtio: enable msi-x for console+balloon
>
> This bugfix ('must have' IMHO):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39311/
>   make chardevs specified in config file work
>
> Also useful (nice to have):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39202/
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39201/
>   add command line option to set global defaults for properties
>
> Finally the 'default devices' patch series ('must have' IMHO):
>
>   http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/39180/ (patch 1/10)
>
> Without that one using -device and -readconfig becomes much harder.

Would you mind writing up a documentation on that whole -device stuff?
I'm having a hard time following your changes and every time you do a
patch you break my S390 series.

Alex