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On 2019-10-10 00:50:09 [+0200], Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > Also, taking advantage of this feature requires changes which just
> > landed in qemu's master branch.
> 
> That's not a big deal, every QEMU supports every kernel and vice versa.

That is correct. My point was that the visibility of this change on
user's side is very limited.

> Paolo

Sebastian