Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 2012-08-13 15:58, Avi Kivity wrote: >> On 08/13/2012 04:27 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: >> >>> Thanks for pushing this forward! Hopefully this will finally kill off >>> qemu-kvm.git for good. >> >> No, it won't. vfio requires a 3.6 kernel, which we cannot assume anyone >> has. We'll need the original device assignment code side-by-side. > > ...which is on my to-do list for 1.3. Is there a deprecation plan for the old device assignment code? I'm not really against the idea of requiring a new kernel for new features. >From a Fedora/OpenSUSE point of view, would supporting old kernels be a requirement to stop shipping qemu-kvm.git over qemu.git? Since distros ship new kernels and new userspaces, I don't think distros would care so I'm not sure who we're trying to support old kernels for. Regards, Anthony Liguori > > Jan > > -- > Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE > Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
