From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:42316) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnUSK-0005XQ-6P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:45:16 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnUSJ-00085P-87 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:45:16 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57419) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnUSI-00085B-VH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 31 Jul 2011 07:45:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4E354043.6050203@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 14:45:07 +0300 From: Dor Laor MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1309448777-1447-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com> <4E2DFAE5.1050304@codemonkey.ws> <4E2EB522.2000808@codemonkey.ws> <4E32BD96.9030806@redhat.com> <4E32C385.5020702@codemonkey.ws> <4E32CF52.9080203@redhat.com> <4E33340D.5050003@codemonkey.ws> <4E353314.8070403@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 0/4] Fix subsection ambiguity in the migration format Reply-To: dlaor@redhat.com List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Peter Maydell Cc: Kevin Wolf , Ryan Harper , Stefan Hajnoczi , mst@redhat.com, quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Paolo Bonzini On 07/31/2011 02:37 PM, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 31 July 2011 11:48, Dor Laor wrote: >> ps: how hard is to finish the vmstate conversion? Can't we just assume >> not converted code is not functional and just remove all of it? > > No, definitely not. I think most people using non-x86 architectures > don't use the vmsave/vmload/migration features at all, but would > be annoyed if the perfectly functional device models they were > using got deleted... I didn't mean to erase the entire device, just the code for save/load which as you say, might not be used at all. > > -- PMM