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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: pkrempa@redhat.com, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	libvir-list@redhat.com, hutao@cn.fujitsu.com,
	marcel.a@redhat.com, qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	"Markus Armbruster" <armbru@redhat.com>,
	rhod@redhat.com, "Gerd Hoffmann" <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	"Luiz Capitulino" <lcapitulino@redhat.com>,
	"Laszlo Ersek" <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans?
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 10:52:11 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <521722BB.6080107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+aC4kt9X1iEHogo1q526sPwExapG-qv0_d7Kn60AjpBdHWEPg@mail.gmail.com>

Il 22/08/2013 22:39, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 08/22/13 22:09, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>
>>> The difference is that ACPI or platform devices in general are
>>> unexpected to be added.  By definition it means that the motherboard has
>>> most likely been changed.
>>
>> You could encounter a new ACPI artifact after simply re-flashing your MB
>> with an updated BIOS, without opening the chassis. "If windows can't
>> deal with that, their loss!" :)
> 
> I'm pretty sure "does Windows boot up okay" is on every major vendor's
> firmware test plan for shipping new updates...

For a firmware vendor it is perfectly okay to ship and require new
drivers for functionality introduced by a firmware update...

Paolo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-23  8:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-22 16:10 [Qemu-devel] pvpanic plans? Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-22 16:44 ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-22 17:53   ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-08-22 18:25     ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-27  8:42       ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-22 19:16     ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-22 20:09       ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-22 20:36         ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-08-22 20:39           ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-23  8:52             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-08-22 21:08         ` Peter Maydell
2013-08-27  8:06         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-27 13:08           ` Ronen Hod
2013-08-27 13:20             ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-27 13:26               ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-27 13:57                 ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-27 13:13       ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Daniel P. Berrange
2013-08-27 13:17         ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-27 13:21         ` Richard W.M. Jones
2013-08-22 17:15 ` [Qemu-devel] " Laszlo Ersek
2013-08-22 18:33   ` Anthony Liguori
2013-08-22 19:44     ` Christian Borntraeger
2013-08-22 19:19   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-08-22 19:41     ` Laszlo Ersek
2013-08-22 20:02       ` [Qemu-devel] [libvirt] " Eric Blake
2013-10-24  2:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Hu Tao
2013-10-29 16:01   ` Markus Armbruster
2013-10-31 14:30   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 14:32     ` Eric Blake
2013-10-31 14:34       ` Anthony Liguori
2013-10-31 14:39       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 14:52         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 14:56           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 15:09             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 15:26               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 15:45                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 15:56                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 16:14                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 16:17                       ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 16:26                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 16:38                           ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 16:48                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 16:52                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 17:00                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 17:09                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 17:01                             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 17:10                               ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 17:18                                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 18:03                                   ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-10-31 16:28                         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 14:47       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-10-31 14:49         ` Eric Blake
2013-10-31 15:07           ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-11-04  9:25     ` Christian Borntraeger

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