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Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:07:59 +0200
From: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] boot order specification
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On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:40:51PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
> Am 26.10.2010 12:48, schrieb ext Gleb Natapov:
> >This is current sate of the patch series for people to comment on.
> >I dropped ioport double reservation checking from isa-bus and added
> >bus_id field for IDE bus since as Markus pointed out unit has different
> >meaning there.
> >
> >This patch series produce names like:
> >
> >ISA@03f1-03f5,03f7/fd@a
> >ISA@03f1-03f5,03f7/fd@b
> >PCI@0000:00:01.1/IDE@1:0
> >PCI@0000:00:01.1/IDE@1:1
> >PCI@0000:00:03.0/virtio-blk@0
> >PCI@0000:00:04.0/virtio-net@0
> 
> Are PCI pass-through devices (SR-IOV NICs) also supported?
Don't see any problem. They are regular PCI devices as seen by
guest, correct? So I expect path to them will look like this:
PCI@0000:00:04.0/nic@0

> I assume that hw/device-assignment.c is missing from the changed files.
> Our systems highly depend on PXE booting from these devices.
> 
The patch is only an example. I converted only virtio-net to support
bootindex ATM.
 
--
			Gleb.