On 03/25/2013 01:56 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
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>> 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
