Re: [Qemu-devel] Do we need a "virt-2.10" machine type before the 2.10 release?

[Peter Maydell]

On 4 August 2017 at 18:48, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Peter Maydell (address@hidden) wrote:
>> Hi; I noticed today that the virt board doesn't have a virt-2.10
>> machine type defined. Do we need to add it before release?
>>
>> (I don't know if there have in fact been any changes between
>> 2.9 and 2.10 that would be compatibility issues.)
>
> I think there's two sub questions:
>   a) The virt-2.9 needs to pick up HW_COMPAT_2_9 if anything
>   in it is relevant for ARM
>
>   b) If anything is relevant in it for ARM then you probably
>   want a virt-2.10 so that you can take advantage of whatever
>   was changed that needed compatibility adding in HW_COMPAT_2_9

...and also, do we as policy want to define a virt-X.Y for
every X.Y release even if it happens that there are no
changes between X.Y-1 and X.Y ? From a user point of view
it seems a bit odd for one to be missing.

thanks
-- PMM