Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] Remove hardcoded xen-platform device initialization (v4)

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

Hi Paul,

(xen-devel snipped)

On 06/18/13 13:16, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Because of concerns over backwards compatibility and a suggestion that
> xenfv should be retired in favour of using the pc machine type I have re-
> worked my original patch into 2 patches:
> 
> [PATCH 1/2] Allow use of pc machine type (accel=xen) for Xen HVM
> [PATCH 2/2] Move hardcoded initialization of xen-platform device.
> 
> Application of both these patches allows alternative pc machine types to be
> used with the accel=xen option, but preserves the hardcoded creation of
> the xen-platform device only for machine type xenfv.
> 
> v3:
> - Add test for xen_enabled() that went missing in v2
> 
> v4:
> - Remove erroneous whitespace hunk
> - Replace hw_error() with fprintf()+exit(1)
> - Add braces to single-line if

can you please offer an opinion in the

  [PATCH 1/2] pvpanic: initialization cleanup
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/216940

thread?

>From where I stand (which is "quite afar" :)) this series of yours seems
somewhat related to my doubt there.

Thanks!
Laszlo