Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] boot order specification

[Bernhard Kohl <bernhard.kohl@nsn.com>]

Am 26.10.2010 15:07, schrieb ext Gleb Natapov:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:40:51PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
>    
>> Am 26.10.2010 12:48, schrieb ext Gleb Natapov:
>>      
>>> This is current sate of the patch series for people to comment on.
>>> I dropped ioport double reservation checking from isa-bus and added
>>> bus_id field for IDE bus since as Markus pointed out unit has different
>>> meaning there.
>>>
>>> This patch series produce names like:
>>>
>>> ISA@03f1-03f5,03f7/fd@a
>>> ISA@03f1-03f5,03f7/fd@b
>>> PCI@0000:00:01.1/IDE@1:0
>>> PCI@0000:00:01.1/IDE@1:1
>>> PCI@0000:00:03.0/virtio-blk@0
>>> PCI@0000:00:04.0/virtio-net@0
>>>        
>> Are PCI pass-through devices (SR-IOV NICs) also supported?
>>      
> Don't see any problem. They are regular PCI devices as seen by
> guest, correct?

Yes, that's true. And we add a bootrom on the qemu command line.
But this is already working and would not be changed.

> So I expect path to them will look like this:
> PCI@0000:00:04.0/nic@0
>    

Yes, that would be fine. I assume that each boot NIC,
e.g. e1000 gets its name here.

>    
>> I assume that hw/device-assignment.c is missing from the changed files.
>> Our systems highly depend on PXE booting from these devices.
>>
>>      
> The patch is only an example. I converted only virtio-net to support
> bootindex ATM.
>
> --
> 			Gleb.
>
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