Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 07/14] pc: apic_common: extend APIC ID property to 32bit

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 22/09/2016 18:00, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > Why not just return initial_apic_id?  This is the meaning the property
> > had before your patch.
> 
> initial_apic_id is immutable but 'id' could be changed at runtime by guest in 
> xAPIC mode
> so returned value depends on xAPIC/x2APIC mode

Understood, but this is just a possibly poorly-named property.  "id"
(e.g. from info qtree as opposed to info lapic) used to be the initial
APIC ID always, even in x2APIC mode.

Not a big deal, but thought I'd mention it since you can keep using
static properties.

Paolo

> so I'm just following spec here.