Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] VFIO-based PCI device assignment for QEMU 1.2

[Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>]

Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> writes:

> On 2012-08-13 15:58, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 08/13/2012 04:27 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> 
>>> Thanks for pushing this forward!  Hopefully this will finally kill off
>>> qemu-kvm.git for good.
>> 
>> No, it won't.  vfio requires a 3.6 kernel, which we cannot assume anyone
>> has.  We'll need the original device assignment code side-by-side.
>
> ...which is on my to-do list for 1.3.

Is there a deprecation plan for the old device assignment code?

I'm not really against the idea of requiring a new kernel for new
features.

>From a Fedora/OpenSUSE point of view, would supporting old kernels be a
requirement to stop shipping qemu-kvm.git over qemu.git?

Since distros ship new kernels and new userspaces, I don't think distros
would care so I'm not sure who we're trying to support old kernels for.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
> Jan
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