From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/4] kvm: i386: Add classic PCI device assignment Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:50:38 +0200 Message-ID: <503DD7DE.50407@siemens.com> References: <825e653c9cfe9d8e26185917cbe1f1dd7ae299e2.1346048917.git.jan.kiszka@web.de> <503B62F4.9070500@suse.de> <503B64D9.4000708@siemens.com> <503DD705.8020406@siemens.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: =?UTF-8?B?QW5kcmVhcyBGw6RyYmVy?= , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "Michael S. Tsirkin" , Alexey Kardashevskiy , Marcelo Tosatti , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" , Alex Williamson , qemu-ppc , Avi Kivity To: Peter Maydell Return-path: Received: from thoth.sbs.de ([192.35.17.2]:32311 "EHLO thoth.sbs.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751082Ab2H2Iuq (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:50:46 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 2012-08-29 10:49, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 29 August 2012 09:47, Jan Kiszka wrote: >> On 2012-08-28 23:26, Peter Maydell wrote: >>> Since this is arch-specific we should probably give the >>> resulting device a more specific name than "pci-assign", >>> which implies that it is (a) ok for any PCI system and >>> (b) not something that will be obsolete in the foreseen >>> future. >> >> The name has to be like this for libvirt compatibility. I can provide it >> as alias, though, calling the device "kvm-pci-assign" by default. Better? > > ...is it likely to ever work for non-x86 PCI devices? Nope, but it also won't be exposed on them. Jan -- Siemens AG, Corporate Technology, CT RTC ITP SDP-DE Corporate Competence Center Embedded Linux