Re: [PATCH v2] hw/i386: disable smbus migration for xenfv

[Paul Durrant]

On Fri, 17 Jan 2020 at 13:06, Olaf Hering <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Am Fri, 17 Jan 2020 11:27:59 +0100
> schrieb Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>:
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> > It doesn't even try to be compatible for all existing and future guests.
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> This looks like the underlying bug.
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> What would future domUs lose if 'xenfv' would be locked to 'pc-i440fx-3.0'?
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I guess eventually that pc type would be removed and then we'd have a
compat issue. Ideally I think libxl should simply not use xenfv and
then it can be deprecated and removed, and then such issues can be
dealt with directly in xl/libxl.

  Paul

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> Olaf