On 5 April 2017 at 22:25, Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> wrote: > It's true that q35 wouldn't break if it simply used > user_creatable after applying this series. But it will break if > one day we link code that registers a user-creatable non-x86 > device inside the qemu-system-x86_64 binary (even if by > accident), or if we add a new user-creatable sysbus device for > other x86 machines (e.g. isapc, xenfv, xenpv, pc-i440fx).
I would some day like us to be able to move towards multiple-architectures-one-qemu-binary, so yes, we should not assume that no non-x86 devices or CPUs could ever be linked in. thanks -- PMM