Re: [Qemu-devel] machines and versions - why so many?

[Andreas Färber]

Am 24.06.2014 10:17, schrieb Markus Armbruster:
> Back then gerd created a way to do the compatibility stuff without
> getting into the other target's hair: compat_props.  They've served us
> well enough, but now that more targets get interested in migration,
> their shortcomings start to hurt.  Having to duplicate device
> compatibility gunk in multiple places, all far away from the device, is
> decidedly suboptimal.  Better ideas welcome.

Might it make sense to reconsider the proposed machine type hierarchy
and have machine-2.2 <- pc-i440fx-2.2, with global properties in
machine-x.y types and pc_compat_x_y() taking care of PC inheritence? We
can't inherit from both pc-x.y and machine-x.y though, so probably not,
just throwing thoughts around.

Andreas

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