Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL v2 00/28] Machine props patches

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 at 12:23, Marc-André Lureau
<address@hidden> wrote:
>
> The following changes since commit e59dbbac0364344a3ad84c3497a98c56003d3fb8:
>
>   Merge remote-tracking branch 
> 'remotes/philmd/tags/fw_cfg-20190104-pull-request' into staging (2019-01-04 
> 18:23:13 +0000)
>
> are available in the Git repository at:
>
>   https://github.com/elmarco/qemu.git tags/machine-props-pull-request
>
> for you to fetch changes up to fa0cb34d2210cc749b9a70db99bb41c56ad20831:
>
>   hostmem: use object id for memory region name with >= 4.0 (2019-01-07 
> 16:18:42 +0400)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Generalize machine compatibility properties
>
> During "[PATCH v2 05/10] qom/globals: generalize
> object_property_set_globals()" review, Eduardo suggested to rework the
> GlobalProperty handling, so that -global is limited to QDev only and
> we avoid mixing the machine compats and the user-provided -global
> properties (instead of generalizing -global to various object kinds,
> like I proposed in v2).
>
> "qdev: do not mix compat props with global props" patch decouples a
> bit user-provided -global from machine compat properties. This allows
> to get rid of "user_provided" and "errp" fields in following patches.
>
> A new compat property "x-use-canonical-path-for-ramblock-id" is added
> to hostmem for legacy canonical path names, set to true for -file and
> -memfd with qemu < 4.0.
>
> (this series was initially titled "[PATCH v2 00/10] hostmem: use
> object "id" for memory region name with >= 3.1", but its focus is more
> in refactoring the global and compatilibity properties handling now)
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------

Applied, thanks.

Please update the changelog at https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/4.0
for any user-visible changes.

-- PMM