> The point is that for PC we really should not keep piling up hacks, > compatibility is more important.
Non-explosion of the test matrix is just as important. > > Doing it for PC only would mean switching > > back from FADT rev3 to rev1, which is worse for guest OS support, > > It's only OSX AFAIK and IIRC OSX doesn't run on PC anyway. Sure it does. You can run it on VMware Workstation which emulates some i440FX-like chipset. > It's definitely way more code. I'll change my mind if there's > a guest that needs the new FADT. Then you can prepare a patch to revert the FADTv3 commit, or do the work to make it specific to the 2.10 Q35 machine type. Paolo