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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.a@redhat.com>,
	Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 0/3] pc: Set hw_version on all machine classes
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 12:55:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56374F1B.6010904@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1446233769-7892-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com>



On 30/10/2015 20:36, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> In 2012, QEMU had a bug where it exposed QEMU version information
> to the guest, meaning a QEMU upgrade would expose different
> hardware to the guest OS even if the same machine-type is being
> used.
> 
> The bug was fixed by commit 93bfef4c6e4b23caea9d51e1099d06433d8835a4,
> on all machines up to pc-1.0. But we kept introducing the same
> bug on all newer machines since then. That means we are breaking
> guest ABI every time QEMU was upgraded.
> 
> Fix this by setting the hw_version on all PC machines, making
> sure the hardware won't change when upgrading QEMU.
> 
> Eduardo Habkost (3):
>   pc: Set hw_version on all machine classes
>   osdep: Rename qemu_{get,set}_version() to qemu_{,set_}hw_version()
>   megasas: Use qemu_hw_version() instead of QEMU_VERSION
> 
>  hw/arm/nseries.c     |  2 +-
>  hw/i386/pc_piix.c    | 13 +++++++++++++
>  hw/i386/pc_q35.c     | 10 ++++++++++
>  hw/ide/core.c        |  2 +-
>  hw/scsi/megasas.c    |  2 +-
>  hw/scsi/scsi-bus.c   |  2 +-
>  hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c  |  2 +-
>  include/qemu/osdep.h |  4 ++--
>  target-i386/cpu.c    |  2 +-
>  util/osdep.c         | 10 +++++-----
>  vl.c                 |  2 +-
>  11 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> 

Michael, is it okay for you if I merge this patch series?

Paolo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-11-02 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-30 19:36 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 0/3] pc: Set hw_version on all machine classes Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-30 19:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 1/3] " Eduardo Habkost
2015-11-09 20:45   ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-10 17:30     ` Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-30 19:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 2/3] osdep: Rename qemu_{get, set}_version() to qemu_{, set_}hw_version() Eduardo Habkost
2015-10-30 19:36 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 3/3] megasas: Use qemu_hw_version() instead of QEMU_VERSION Eduardo Habkost
2015-11-02 11:55 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2015-11-09 20:46   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RESEND v2 0/3] pc: Set hw_version on all machine classes Michael S. Tsirkin
2015-11-10 15:01     ` Paolo Bonzini
2015-11-10 15:44       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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