Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 0/3] s390x/kvm: implement new hardware/firmware features

[Christian Ehrhardt]

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:
>
>> 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.
>
> 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.

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?

[1]: https://www.qemu.org/2018/01/04/spectre/