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Re: [qemu-s390x] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] s390x/kvm: implement new ha
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Cornelia Huck |
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Re: [qemu-s390x] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] s390x/kvm: implement new hardware/firmware features |
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Thu, 18 Jan 2018 15:48:05 +0100 |
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 14:31:50 +0100
Christian Ehrhardt <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:15 PM, Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 13:47:54 +0100
> > Christian Borntraeger <address@hidden> wrote:
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> >> Have the x86 features been marked as stable? If the answer is yes,
> >> shall we mark these patches for stable as well?
> >
> > Doesn't look like it.
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> > TBH, I'm not quite sure whether this should go into stable as I'm a bit
> > unclear what our use case for stable is. It seems to be mostly "don't
> > let people run into known crashes" or something like that.
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> I read the public statement [1] as "... non-x86 processors ...
> backported to recent stable releases." or did the changes in
> discussion here end up structurally so different that this doesn't
> apply anymore?
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> [1]: https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/
OK, that would read as "do backport". (The x86 patches I saw didn't
carry an explicit cc:stable.)
- Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v3 3/3] s390x/kvm: provide stfle.81, (continued)
Re: [qemu-s390x] [PATCH v3 0/3] s390x/kvm: implement new hardware/firmware features, Cornelia Huck, 2018/01/22