On Wed, 2018-04-11 at 08:52 -0400, John Ferlan wrote: > On 05/03/2018 08:57 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > Up until now we have only formatted non-default GIC versions on > > the command line, in order to maintain compatibility with older > > QEMU versions that didn't implement the gic-version option to > > begin with; however, doing so is entirely unnecessary for newer > > QEMU versions, where the option is available. Moreover, having > > the GIC version formatted on the command line at all times > > ensures that QEMU changing its own defaults doesn't affect the > > ABI of libvirt guests. > > > > A few test cases are removed to avoid extra churn. It doesn't > > matter for coverage, as those scenarios are already covered by > > other parts of the test suite. > > > > This patch is better viewed with 'git show -w'. > > > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> > > --- > > src/qemu/qemu_command.c | 44 > > +++++++++++++++++------- > > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-none-tcg.args | 2 +- > > tests/qemuxml2argvdata/aarch64-gic-v2.args | 2 +- > > tests/qemuxml2argvtest.c | 6 ---- > > 4 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) > > And because of code in qemuDomainDefEnableDefaultFeatures related to TCG > and GIC and (it seems) bz1414081, the default for TCG would then be v2, > hence the reason for the none-tcg change, if I'm reading correctly at > least... Although perhaps not obvious just reading this patch ;-)
Yes, that is correct. We're merely making the configuration explicit on the command line, the guest ABI won't change one bit. -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
