From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33284) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8rXP-0003AS-Gj for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:24:44 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8rXM-0007g1-9d for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:24:43 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:54355) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y8rXM-0007fi-2t for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2015 09:24:40 -0500 Message-ID: <54AD2DB8.8040603@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 13:59:36 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1419421800-27505-1-git-send-email-mst@redhat.com> <549AB0AC.8030101@redhat.com> <20141224124138.GA27854@redhat.com> <54ACE133.4080208@redhat.com> <20150107100313.GC24828@redhat.com> <54AD0FF8.9000406@redhat.com> <20150107123754.GA1112@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150107123754.GA1112@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/8] pc: resizeable ROM blocks List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Cc: Peter Maydell , imammedo@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, dgilbert@redhat.com, Juan Quintela On 07/01/2015 13:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:52:40AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Maybe it's too optimistic. That's why I'm saying do not trim the tables >> for a couple releases more. > > I think it is too optimistic, and not trimming the tables does not > solve it convincingly enough to my taste. Not trimming the tables is just to give us more time to think about problems with the new world order that Igor and I are introducing. I don't want to rush it. I'm okay with merging the patches together with the trimming, if the experience during this time tells us that I was too optimistic. >> If you have a bug, you're changing guest ABI. > > That's not how we designed it. ACPI tables are just generated firmware. > They are *not* ABI. They are the only part of the firmware that a) describes the machine and b) runs inside the OS. So they are at least special. Paolo