On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Stefano Stabellini writes ("Re: [Xen-devel] xl vs. xm: floppy support"):
> > The right way to implement fd* support is probably to create an "fd"
> > disk type, so that we can have frontends and backends for floppies and
> > support stubdoms.
>
> Yes.
>
> > However that would be obviously too much for this stage of the release.
> > This patch would solve the simple case but would introduce two fields in
> > the libxl idl that we know are wrong.
> > 
> > I would rather implement this kind of simple fd support entirely in xl
> > using the extra field in libxl_device_model_info so that we don't
> > "corrupt" the idl.
>
> I think for 4.1 we will should to tell users who want floppy support
> to use device_model_args.
 
that would be yet another workaround to document
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