Il 04/03/2013 12:52, Gleb Natapov ha scritto: > > Same here, you can remove the panic event port and add debugcon at > > 0x505. That's the problematic case. But if the user goes to that > > length, I think we can honestly say we don't care. > > IMO there is a big difference between well know serial ISA ports and > PIO ports we allocate for our devices. Later have to be discoverable > without resorting to probing. On CPU level we do the same with CPUID > bits instead of relaying on MSRs #GP. On KVM API level we do the same > with capabilities instead of relying on ioctls returning errors. This > is not different.
Ok, I see your point now. Yes, this is a good reason why patching is better in the long run. Paolo
