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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-11-24 18:06:29 +0100 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2015-11-25 10:24:27 +0100 |
| commit | 1d649244b3695cb148dd2ae66999db0f6f9566b3 (patch) | |
| tree | 059f6801255605ff19fbc616c19a2e2a6abb1b5f /qemu-doc.texi | |
| parent | 2825717c02f5b1367e8e315b222888db00618170 (diff) | |
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ivshmem: Rename property memdev to x-memdev for 2.5
The device's guest interface and its QEMU user interface are
flawed^Whotly debated. We'll resolve that in the next development
cycle, probably by deprecating the device in favour of a cleaned up,
but not quite compatible revision.
To avoid adding more baggage to the soon-to-be-deprecated interface,
mark property "memdev" as experimental, by renaming it to "x-memdev".
It's the only recent user interface change.
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1448384789-14830-6-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com>
[Update of qemu-doc.texi squashed in]
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/qemu-doc.texi b/qemu-doc.texi index 68ca07533d..ffc3e50abb 100644 --- a/qemu-doc.texi +++ b/qemu-doc.texi @@ -1300,7 +1300,7 @@ a memory backend that has hugepage support: @example qemu-system-i386 -object memory-backend-file,size=1G,mem-path=/mnt/hugepages/my-shmem-file,id=mb1 - -device ivshmem,memdev=mb1 + -device ivshmem,x-memdev=mb1 @end example ivshmem-server also supports hugepages mount points with the |