Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/4] Disable section footers on older machine types

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Juan Quintela (address@hidden) wrote:
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> >
> > The next patch adds section footers; but we don't want to
> > break migration compatibility so disable them on older
> > machine types
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> 
> Reviewed-by: Juan Quintela <address@hidden>
> 
> But ....
> 
> Power people

It looks like Power does:

ppc/spapr.c
1828:static void spapr_compat_2_3(Object *obj)

like the PC ones;  so I guess we need to roll this flag, and your
two flags into a common function somewhere and clal it from there?

Dave

> ARM people
> 
> Do you care now about cross version migration?
> 
> Later, Juan.
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK