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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of vi
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Gerd Hoffmann |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices |
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Tue, 16 Oct 2018 08:48:16 +0200 |
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NeoMutt/20180716 |
Hi,
> I don't know. The `disable-modern` option already exists but I
> don't know who would want to use it.
Compat property for old (2.6 & older) machine types.
> > Right - maybe a flag to disable modern interface is enough.
> > We thus get two types:
> > - transitional (legacy)
> > - non-transitional (modern)
> > which matches spec nicely.
>
> I would agree with the removal of virtio-*-0.9 only if we decide
> to drop support for disable-modern=true.
See above. We can't drop disable-modern.
> If we still want to provide a legacy-only virtio device, it should be
> a separate device type.
I can't see a reason why we should provide legacy-only virtio devices.
cheers,
Gerd
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices, Gerd Hoffmann, 2018/10/15
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices, Cornelia Huck, 2018/10/15
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices, Stefan Hajnoczi, 2018/10/17