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

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 20/01/20 12:18, Paul Durrant wrote:
>>
>> What would future domUs lose if 'xenfv' would be locked to 'pc-i440fx-3.0'?
>
> I guess eventually that pc type would be removed and then we'd have a
> compat issue.

That's years away, so ideally libxl would have migrated away from xenfv
before that.  For now, sticking to a fixed version as in Olaf's patch is
a good stopgap measure.

Paolo

> 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.