On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 04:24:41PM -0400, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
The point is that for PC we really should not keep piling up hacks, compatibility is more important.
Non-explosion of the test matrix is just as important.
Absolutely.
Doing it for PC only would mean switching back from FADT rev3 to rev1, which is worse for guest OS support,
It's only OSX AFAIK and IIRC OSX doesn't run on PC anyway.
Sure it does. You can run it on VMware Workstation which emulates some i440FX-like chipset.
I don't think it works on our PC though. Never tried, going by Gabriel's word though.
It's definitely way more code. I'll change my mind if there's a guest that needs the new FADT.
Then you can prepare a patch to revert the FADTv3 commit, or do the work to make it specific to the 2.10 Q35 machine type.
Paolo
Right, Igor said he's doing that.