Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU: PCI bus name on PowerPC platforms

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2014 at 02:35:17PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 05/03/2014 12:43, Alexey Kardashevskiy ha scritto:
> >
> >I just tried current upstresm QEMU and it handles bus=pci fine, it prints
> >an error on bus=pci.0 so I am confused - what qemu are you trying?
> 
> See below:
> 
> 1) virtex-ml507
> 2) pseries
> Warning: Disabling some instructions which are not emulated by TCG
> (0x0, 0x4)
>     bus: pci
> 3) prep
>     bus: pci.0
> 4) bamboo
>     bus: pci.0
> 5) ref405ep
> qemu-system-ppc64: Could not load PowerPC BIOS 'ppc405_rom.bin'
> 6) taihu
> qemu-system-ppc64: Could not load PowerPC BIOS 'ppc405_rom.bin'
> 7) mpc8544ds
>     bus: pci.0
> 8) g3beige
>     bus: pci.0
> 9) mac99
>     bus: pci.0
> 10) ppce500
>     bus: pci.0
> 
> pseries is the odd one, I think the right thing to do is for QEMU to
> change the bus name incompatibly, and libvirt to cope with it.

If we're going to do that please make sure to change every machine type
in QEMU to use pci.0 as a standard, not just PPC.

FWIW, I had requested this rename in the past but it was rejected :-(

   http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/70783

Regards,
Daniel
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