Re: [Qemu-ppc] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V5 5/5] machine: remove iommu property

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 11:07:52AM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 06/28/2016 05:57 AM, David Gibson wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 06:38:35PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > > Since iommu devices can be created with '-device' there is
> > > no need to keep iommu as machine and mch property.
> > 
> > Doesn't this break backwards compatibility?
> > 
> 
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> Intel IOMMU was a kind of POC until recent development.
> The new IOMMU features will require more command line options,
> so even if we keep the machine property around, it can't be really used.
> 
> More on this was discussed in a prev thread.
> https://www.mail-archive.com/address@hidden/msg377385.html

Ok, fair enough.

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