From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Paul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xen.org" <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove hardcoded xen-platform device initialization
Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2013 09:52:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51BB2024.5030204@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9AAE0902D5BC7E449B7C8E4E778ABCD0039278@LONPEX01CL01.citrite.net>
Il 14/06/2013 04:50, Paul Durrant ha scritto:
>> > This patch is problematic because we can't know for sure the version of
>> > upstream QEMU that is going to be used with Xen.
>> > If we apply this patch and QEMU 1.5 is going to be used with Xen 4.2,
>> > guests won't be able to use PV drivers.
>> >
> Is there not a compatibility matrix? The hardcoded init. is just blatantly the wrong thing to be doing and it needs to go.
>
> Could my accompanying toolstack patch not be backported to the next 4.2 release as mitigation?
I think Ian is right. You should revert the toolstack patch and not
apply this one for now. Then aim at using "-M pc" in 4.4 (and require
1.6 or 1.7), so that there is no need for a compatibility matrix.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-14 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-13 9:50 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Remove hardcoded xen-platform device initialization Paul Durrant
2013-06-13 17:33 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-13 17:44 ` [Qemu-devel] [Xen-devel] " Ian Campbell
2013-06-13 18:02 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14 9:00 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-14 10:38 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-14 13:50 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14 14:11 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-14 14:57 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-14 15:10 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-18 18:56 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-18 19:12 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-18 19:35 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-18 21:38 ` Andreas Färber
2013-06-19 8:29 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 8:37 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 8:41 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 8:56 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 9:11 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 12:51 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-06-19 13:47 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-19 8:27 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 13:55 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-19 15:09 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 8:11 ` Ian Campbell
2013-06-19 13:53 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-19 14:00 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-19 16:27 ` Stefano Stabellini
2013-06-20 7:32 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-14 8:56 ` Paul Durrant
2013-06-14 8:50 ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Durrant
2013-06-14 13:52 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-06-14 13:57 ` Paul Durrant
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