From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities] Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:55:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4A326C7E.3020309@codemonkey.ws> References: <20090610145540.GI19375@poweredge.glommer> <20090610150129.GC28601@redhat.com> <200906101624.30659.paul@codesourcery.com> <20090610174301.GC7416@shareable.org> <20090610182227.GN28601@redhat.com> <20090610192702.GH7416@shareable.org> <1244796209.16425.20.camel@blaa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Lokier , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Carsten Otte , kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa , Rusty Russell , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl , Christian Borntraeger , Paul Brook , Avi Kivity To: Mark McLoughlin Return-path: Received: from mail-gx0-f214.google.com ([209.85.217.214]:36791 "EHLO mail-gx0-f214.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750993AbZFLOz6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Jun 2009 10:55:58 -0400 Received: by gxk10 with SMTP id 10so3651902gxk.13 for ; Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:56:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1244796209.16425.20.camel@blaa> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 20:27 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: > > = Solution - Separate configuration from compat hints = > > As I suggested before: > > - Allow the VM manager to dump compat hints; this would be an opaque > file format, more like the savevm format than a config file > How is compat hints different from a device tree? In my mind, that's what compat hints is. I don't see another sane way to implement it. Regards, Anthony Liguori