Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] Introduce canonical device hierarchy string

Alex Williamson
2010-06-15T18:04:00Z

On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 11:12 +0200, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> > ISA: serial/parallel = iobase, others??
>
> ne2k_isa has iobase too.

Added

> I think all remaining isa devices (timer, kbd, vga, ...) have a fixed
> i/o base and can be only once in the system.

Yep, isa doesn't support hotplug either, so there's usually only one of
the devices and they don't move.

> > ide-drive: unit
> > I2C: address
> >
> > virtio-serial doesn't seem to make a DeviceState per port, so I think it
> > can be skipped. I'm sure I'm still missing some...
>
> Hmm? -device virtio-serial -device virtconsole,chardev=foo,port=23

Ok, there's a nr property on virtconsole, I'll add that. But I still
don't see ports enumerated as qdev entries for generic virtio-serial.

Alex