From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGHAL-0003lF-KQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MGHAH-0003l3-F6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=46631 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MGHAH-0003l0-C8 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:17 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f223.google.com ([209.85.218.223]:35634) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MGHAG-0005ZG-Ku for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 14:44:17 -0400 Received: by bwz23 with SMTP id 23so3168050bwz.34 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:44:15 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4A36912A.8090900@redhat.com> References: <1244821292.30522.56.camel@blaa> <4A364B53.9080007@codemonkey.ws> <4A364FE0.40204@redhat.com> <4A3651EB.3070204@codemonkey.ws> <4A36555A.4090303@redhat.com> <4A3659A0.3050108@codemonkey.ws> <4A366348.1030202@redhat.com> <1245083229.3222.103.camel@blaa> <4A368F12.2090504@codemonkey.ws> <4A36912A.8090900@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:44:15 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] From: Blue Swirl Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Avi Kivity Cc: Mark McLoughlin , dlaor@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Carsten Otte , Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Christian Borntraeger , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Paul Brook On 6/15/09, Avi Kivity wrote: > On 06/15/2009 09:12 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > > > > 2) Whenever the default machine type changes in a guest-visible way, > introduce a new machine type > > > > s/whenever/qemu stable release/ > > > > - Use explicit versions in name: pc-v1, pc-v2 > > > > pc-qemu-0.10? pc-2009.06? Or given the hardware, should that be pc-1997?