Re: [libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/15] qmp: Report supported device types on 'query-machines'
Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel(a)redhat.com> writes:
On 11/24/2016 03:34 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost(a)redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 06:43:16PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>>> On 11/22/2016 03:11 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>>> The Problem
>>
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> Our decision to have hybrid PCI/PCIe devices and buses breeds
> considerable complexity. I wish we had avoided them, but I believe it's
> too late to change now.
>
>>> This still does not solve the problem that some devices makes
>>> sense only on a specific arch.
>
Hi Markus,
> Examples?
>
One quick example would be that we don't want to see
Intel's IOH 3420 PCIe Root Port in an ARM machine,
or a pxb on a Q35 machine (in this case we want pxb-pcie)
Such a device would be weird. But would it be wrong? Wrong enough for
QEMU to reject it? Unless QEMU rejects it, there's no reason not to
list it as pluggable.
I do believe there are other examples, I'll try to think of
more.
Thanks,
Marcel
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