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From: Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [SeaBIOS] [RFC PATCH 0/2] Allow RedHat PCI bridges
 reserve more buses than necessary during init
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To: Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel@redhat.com>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>, Aleksandr Bezzubikov <zuban32s@gmail.com>, seabios@seabios.org, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 03:15:46PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> On 21/07/2017 13:04, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > I'd prefer to have a single vendor capability for all resource
> > allocation hints provided by qemu.
> Sure, the capability looking something like:
> 
>    [flags: reserve-buses|reserve-IO|reserve-MEM|...]
>    [extra-buses][IO-size][MEM-size]
> 
>    if reserve-buses -> use 'extra-buses' value and so on

I don't have any objection to using a PCI capability, but I do wonder
if fw_cfg would be a better fit.  This information is purely qemu ->
firmware, right?

-Kevin