Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-06 Thread Daniel P . Berrangé
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 09:30:32AM +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 15:38 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > So I agree neither

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-06 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Wed, 2019-03-06 at 09:30 +0100, Ján Tomko wrote: > On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think > > > adding non-transitional alias

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-06 Thread Ján Tomko
On Wed, Mar 06, 2019 at 08:41:48AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 15:38 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: [...] So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think adding non-transitional alias devices

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-05 Thread Peter Krempa
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 16:56:43 +0100, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 15:38 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: [...] > So I agree neither scenario is exactly perfect, but I still think > adding non-transitional alias devices would overall be more > user-friendly. I don't think it

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 2019-03-05 at 15:38 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > > -device virtio-blk-pci-non-transitional \ > > -device virtio-net-pci-non-transitional \ > > -device virtio-gpu-pci-non-transitional \ > > > > and you wouldn't have to question why you can use the > > non-transitional

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-05 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > -device virtio-blk-pci-non-transitional \ > -device virtio-net-pci-non-transitional \ > -device virtio-gpu-pci-non-transitional \ > > and you wouldn't have to question why you can use the > non-transitional variant for pretty much everything, except for the > few cases where you

Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-4.0 v4 0/2] virtio: Provide version-specific variants of virtio PCI devices

2019-03-05 Thread Andrea Bolognani
Sorry to resurrect such an old thread, but I have been wondering... On Wed, 2018-12-05 at 17:57 -0200, Eduardo Habkost wrote: [...] > Changes v1 -> v2: > * Removed *-0.9 devices. Nobody will want to use them, if > transitional devices work with legacy drivers > (Gerd Hoffmann, Michael S.