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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 0/3] hw/pci-host/versatile: Fix issues w
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Linus Walleij |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.5 0/3] hw/pci-host/versatile: Fix issues with newer kernels |
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Wed, 15 May 2013 16:02:14 +0200 |
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> The reworking of the versatile PCI controller model so that it actually
> behaved like hardware included an attempt to autodetect whether the
> guest Linux kernel was assuming the old broken behaviour. Unfortunately
> it turns out that there are several different variant broken kernels
> which behave slightly differently (though none of them will work on
> real hardware). The first two patches in this series improve the
> autodetection so that we will work out of the box on more kernels.
> The third patch adds a property for forcing the behaviour, so that
> if there are further cases we didn't know about, at least users have
> a command line workaround they can enable.
This looks like a viable approach to me. So FWIW:
Acked-by: Linus Walleij <address@hidden>
Yours,
Linus Walleij