Re: [PATCH 5/6] device assignment: support for assigning PCI devices to guests

Muli Ben-Yehuda
2008-10-29T10:29:09Z

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 03:56:54PM +0800, Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> Muli Ben-Yehuda wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 10:45:57AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >
> >>> +ifeq ($(USE_KVM), 1)
> >>> +OBJS+= device-assignment.o
> >>> +endif
> >>
> >> I don't think you want to build this on PPC so I think you need a
> >> stronger check.
> >
> > Good point. How about checking TARGET_BASE_ARCH = i386?
>
> It should work for ia64, please include ia64 when you do it in this
> way.

Fixing it to work for ia64 will take a few more changes than just
this, and I'd rather not do it now. This patchset has been through a
tremendous amount of churn, and I hope it can finally find its way
into the tree now. Once it's in, adding ia64 support will be a lot
simpler.

Cheers,
Muli
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