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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 18/18] kvm: Activate in-kernel irqchip support
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:10:31 +0100
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On 2012-01-24 15:05, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 08:54 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Nope, see kvm_irqchip_create, patch 13. You can also check by browsing
>> the qtree (different device model names).
> 
> That was my biggest objection to the previous iterations.  Later
> versions changed to use an attribute (selecting the backend).  What
> happened now?

The other approach was rejected.

Moreover, see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/129659,
QOM will allow addressing with identical paths.

Jan

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