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Subject: Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com>, Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>, Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>

On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:34 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 04:53:27PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > The other obvious piece to add to it would be PCI addresses, so that
> > even if you remove a device, the addresses assigned to existing devices
> > don't change.
> 
> Could you clarify this requirement please?

Avi clarified, but I've written it up here too:

  https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/KVM_Stable_PCI_Addresses

Cheers,
Mark.