[Libosinfo] [PATCH 1/2] win-xp: use ac97 driver

[Christophe Fergeau]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 12:38:45PM +0100, Felipe Borges wrote:
> Nowadays libosinfo clients can cover more unknown operating systems
> by falling back to the ICH6 drivers.
> 
> To make sure that older versions of Windows which have AC97 support
> continue functioning as expected, we can explicitly list the AC97
> driver in the osinfo-db.
> 
> More modern versions of Windows such as win-7, win-8, and win-10
> already contain the ICH6 drivers data.

And very recent windows don't have AC97 drivers.
So WinXP cannot use ICH6 out of the box because it does not have drivers
for it, while recent windows (how recent?) can't use AC97 out of the box
because of lack of drivers.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=672872#c2 has some rationale
for Boxes defaulting to AC97 6 years ago. virt-manager seems to be
defaulting to ICH6 if a new enough QEMU (0.14) is detected.

Christophe
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