Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] virtio-ccw: virtio-1 enablement

[Cornelia Huck]

On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 19:19:39 +0200
Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:36:34 +0200
> Thomas Huth <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:17:32 +0200
> > Cornelia Huck <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > Michael,
> > > 
> > > here's the virtio-ccw patches that Gerd had dropped due to conflicts
> > > during his virtio-1 rebase. Patch 2 has been updated with my changes
> > > to ensure big endian accesses (which was a separate patch before).
> > > 
> > > There might be more patches that were in my tree but are not yet upstream,
> > > but I'm still digging myself out from under the post-vacation email pile.
> > > 
> > > I think these can still go into 2.4.
> > 
> > Is it safe enough to enable them by default already? If I've got
> > the virtio-pci code right (see the patch description at
> > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2015-06/msg01362.html),
> > it is still disabled there by default - and "modern will be turned on by
> > default once all remaining spec compilance issues are addressed".
> 
> I was about to say "yes" when I noticed that we probably want to care
> about migrating dev->revision as well... I'll drop patch 4 for now and
> just send patches 1-3 from this series.

On a second thought, I can simply include dev->revision, as we have the
incompatible ->config_vector change for this release already. I'll
include a new patch for this and patch 4 as well, as we only need to
care about Linux guests on ccw for now and those are fine.