Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Remove legacy sysfw code

2013-06-04 Thread Paolo Bonzini
Il 03/06/2013 23:56, Jordan Justen ha scritto: > You seem to have a much better handle than I do on machine migration > and backward compatibility issues within QEMU. > > One difference we'll see from this series is that... > > With QEMU 1.2, an error would always be generated with: > qemu-system

Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Remove legacy sysfw code

2013-06-03 Thread Jordan Justen
You seem to have a much better handle than I do on machine migration and backward compatibility issues within QEMU. One difference we'll see from this series is that... With QEMU 1.2, an error would always be generated with: qemu-system-x86_64 -M pc-1.2 -enable-kvm -pflash flash.bin Whereas in Q

[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] Remove legacy sysfw code

2013-06-03 Thread Paolo Bonzini
The sysfw code to choose between ROM and flash BIOS was a bad idea, because it triggered different behavior between TCG and KVM. We deleted the behavior in 1.5, but we left the code around because it was close to the release. Now it's time to delete it. Paolo Bonzini (3): remove read-only pc_s