Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qxl: Default to PCI revision 4 when spice-server is new enough

[Søren Sandmann]

Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> writes:

> Il 03/10/2012 19:57, Søren Sandmann ha scritto:
>> From: Søren Sandmann Pedersen <address@hidden>
>> 
>> When spice-server is newer than 0.12.0, the default revision should be
>> QXL_REVISION_STABLE_V12.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Soren Sandmann <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/qxl.h |    3 +--
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/hw/qxl.h b/hw/qxl.h
>> index 5553824..4460bb2 100644
>> --- a/hw/qxl.h
>> +++ b/hw/qxl.h
>> @@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ typedef struct PCIQXLDevice {
>>          }                                                               \
>>      } while (0)
>>  
>> -#if 0
>> -/* spice-server 0.12 is still in development */
>> +#if SPICE_SERVER_VERSION >= 0x000c00 /* 0x000c00 == 0.12.0 */
>>  #define QXL_DEFAULT_REVISION QXL_REVISION_STABLE_V12
>>  #else
>>  #define QXL_DEFAULT_REVISION QXL_REVISION_STABLE_V10
>> 
>
> No, that's not possible.  The revision must be the same for all machines
> started with the same "-M" argument.  So your only choice is to make
> 0.12 a requirement for QEMU 1.3.  Then you can use compatibility
> properties (see the long list of strings in hw/pc_piix.c) to ensure that
> pc-1.2 and earlier machines use the previous revision.

Spice server 0.12 is already, so I'll send a patch to require that
unconditionally. I'm assuming that later strings override earlier ones
so that the revision=3 I added won't take effect for previous machines.


Søren