On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 09:41:29AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 09/10/2013 09:24, Michael S. Tsirkin ha scritto: > >> > Sorry, out of office for a long time, and did not keep up with this > >> > thread in time. > >> > When letting the caller set the intcap, we should consider the > >> > compatibility of q35. For pc-q35-1.7 or later, the caller should set > >> > the property, otherwise not. > > Set it always - just set it to a compatible value for 1.6. > > > > So you're suggesting skipping the mechanism we have for compatibility > properties, and instead using a global variable or something like that? > > Paolo
That's one option. Or we can use global properties - just set for 1.7 too. All this is not ideal: properties really need to integrate better with QOM, and using global properties for compat always was a hack. -- MST
