Re: Configuration vs. compat hints

Markus Armbruster
2009-06-15T13:06:39Z

Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> writes:

> Avi Kivity wrote:
>> On 06/15/2009 12:08 PM, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>>>> This last option makes sense to me: in a real world the user has
>>>> control over where he places the device on the bus, so why
>>>> not with qemu?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yep, most people seem to agree that it makes sense to allow this, but
>>> some believe it should only be via a machine description file, not the
>>> command line.
>>>
>>
>> I don't understand this opposition. It's clear a machine config
>> file is a long way in our future. It's also clear lack of stable
>> PCI addresses hurts us now.
>
> Is there opposition? I don't ever recall seeing a patch...

http://www.archivum.info/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/2009-01/msg01458.html

> I think it's a perfectly fine idea.

Off to dust off my patch series.