On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:23:29PM +0200, Radim Krčmář wrote: > QEMU 2.7 allowed EIM even in configurations that were forbidden in the > last patch because they were not working, like old KVM or userspace > APIC. In order to keep backward compatibility, we again allow guests to > misbehave in non-obvious ways, and make it the default. > > Signed-off-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrc...@redhat.com>
If you break compatibility and fix it in separate patches, you break bisectability (even for people that are bisecting bugs unrelated to EIM). (But I still don't understand if patch 6/7 really breaks anything, or not.) -- Eduardo