Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/3] target-i386: Add 486sx, old486, and old486sx CPU models

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/25/2013 01:56 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> 
>>
>> It needs to be possible to fix bugs....
> 
> It is possible to fix them today: just write a compat function or add a
> global variable that is handled by cpu_x86_init(), and call it from the
> pc-1.3 machine-type init function. See disable_kvm_pv_eoi() and
> enable_compat_apic_id_mode(), for example.
> 
> The difference is that this will be much easier once we introduce the
> static properties: then you just need to add the compat property values
> to the compat_props field on the machine-type struct.
> 

Hi guys,

Any movement on this in the past year?

        -hpa