> Depends on how you code it up. We have a list, we look each file > there and sort accordingly. Fine. > New devices will not be on this list, I guess you can just ignore them > and guests will not see them. OK but I think it is better to make old > machine types see them.
Not a new fw_cfg file. It's existing smbios file which gets new records added by a new device. So when initializing it early (old order) it doesn't (yet) contain the new records. When initializing it late it has them, but also has a different place in the fw_cfg directory. So old machine types initialize smbios early (for compatibility). New machine types initialize smbios late (so guests see the new records). While mucking with the file ordering anyway: Good opportunity to make new machine types also sort the fw_cfg directory entries, so they get a fixed order independent from the order they are created, and we will not face this problem again. cheers, Gerd
