osdep: Change default value of qemu_hw_version() to "2.5+"

There are two issues with qemu_hw_version() today:

1) If a machine has hw_version set, the value returned by it is
   not very useful, because it is not the actual QEMU version.
2) If a machine does't set hw_version, the return value of
   qemu_hw_version() is broken, because it will change when
   upgrading QEMU.

For those reasons, using qemu_hw_version() is strongly
discouraged, and should be used only in code that used
QEMU_VERSION in the past and needs to keep compatibility.

To fix (2), instead of making every machine broken by default
unless they set hw_version, make qemu_hw_version() simply return
"2.5+" if qemu_set_hw_version() is not called.

Suggested-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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Eduardo Habkost 2015-11-12 15:29:54 -02:00 committed by Michael S. Tsirkin
parent 541abd10a0
commit fac862ffa6
3 changed files with 17 additions and 1 deletions

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@ -51,6 +51,11 @@ bool machine_mem_merge(MachineState *machine);
* used to provide @cpu_index to socket number mapping, allowing
* a machine to group CPU threads belonging to the same socket/package
* Returns: socket number given cpu_index belongs to.
* @hw_version:
* Value of QEMU_VERSION when the machine was added to QEMU.
* Set only by old machines because they need to keep
* compatibility on code that exposed QEMU_VERSION to guests in
* the past (and now use qemu_hw_version()).
*/
struct MachineClass {
/*< private >*/