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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 2/5] hpet: entitle more irq pins for hpet
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, liu ping fan <qemulist@gmail.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_F=E4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>

Il 09/10/2013 09:24, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto:
>> > Sorry, out of office for a long time, and did not keep up with this
>> > thread in time.
>> > When letting the caller set the intcap, we should consider the
>> > compatibility of q35. For pc-q35-1.7 or later, the caller should set
>> > the property, otherwise not.
> Set it always - just set it to a compatible value for 1.6.
> 

So you're suggesting skipping the mechanism we have for compatibility
properties, and instead using a global variable or something like that?

Paolo