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From: | H. Peter Anvin |
Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 1/3] target-i386: Add 486sx, old486, and old486sx CPU models |
Date: | Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:56:41 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 |
On 03/25/2013 01:56 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > >> >> It needs to be possible to fix bugs.... > > It is possible to fix them today: just write a compat function or add a > global variable that is handled by cpu_x86_init(), and call it from the > pc-1.3 machine-type init function. See disable_kvm_pv_eoi() and > enable_compat_apic_id_mode(), for example. > > The difference is that this will be much easier once we introduce the > static properties: then you just need to add the compat property values > to the compat_props field on the machine-type struct. > It sounds like this is underway, and since the priority for the 486 bit is very low it is better for that bit to just wait. -hpa
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