On 07/01/2015 13:37, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Jan 07, 2015 at 11:52:40AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: >> Maybe it's too optimistic. That's why I'm saying do not trim the tables >> for a couple releases more. > > I think it is too optimistic, and not trimming the tables does not > solve it convincingly enough to my taste.
Not trimming the tables is just to give us more time to think about problems with the new world order that Igor and I are introducing. I don't want to rush it. I'm okay with merging the patches together with the trimming, if the experience during this time tells us that I was too optimistic. >> If you have a bug, you're changing guest ABI. > > That's not how we designed it. ACPI tables are just generated firmware. > They are *not* ABI. They are the only part of the firmware that a) describes the machine and b) runs inside the OS. So they are at least special. Paolo
