Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] non-migratable devices

[Gerd Hoffmann]

On 07/08/11 14:59, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/08/2011 02:47 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > > One possibility is to add device name remapping to machine types, like
> > > "ide is actually ide-0.14 when using pc-0.14" and put a different
> > > VMState in ide-0.14.
> >
> > That isn't very different from subsections.
> >
> > Problem is that the old qemu version doesn't have the section at all,
> > not that it looks somehow different.
>
> No, I meant a different qdev name, i.e. mapping the same device name to
> a different DeviceInfo.

That is an idea.  This could also replace compat properties (by giving 
ide-0.14 different default values for the properties) and thereby move 
the compat info from hw/pc.c to hw/ide/xxx.c.

cheers,
  Gerd