Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] add support for hyperv time parameter

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 21/01/2014 22:12, Vadim Rozenfeld ha scritto:
> > >
> > > If you are planning some level of backwards compatibility with RHEL6, it
> > > may make sense to use separate subsections.
> I believe we have to make it backward compatible. In RHEL6 we added
> support for relaxed timers only, but upstream doesn't have such bits.
> Technically, hypercall page, vapic and iTSC pages will be introduced in
> RHEL7 and as you said, they will probably go to a different, new
> section, but for upstream the entire section is absolutely new.

Ok, then upstream we have choice.  Using 2 subsections is not wrong, and 
it makes sense since it's covered by different kernel capabilities.

Paolo