Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 08/15] i440fx: print an error message if user tries to enable iommu

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 10:00:38PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> 
> > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 03:38:03PM -0500, Bandan Das wrote:
> >> "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> >> 
> >> > From: Bandan Das <bsd@redhat.com>
> >> >
> >> > There's no indication of any sort that i440fx doesn't support
> >> > "iommu=on"
> >> 
> >> Oh, Markus quite didn't like this approach because this is
> >> true for all other machines too. Anyway, I will keep in
> >> mind to take care of this when I post a generic patch. 
> >
> > Do you think I should revert this one then?
> 
> The patch isn't wrong, it merely addresses only one special case of a
> generic issue.  Probably the most important case in practice.  If I
> understood Bandan correctly, he intended to drop this patch and work on
> a general solution.  As far as I'm concerned, you can keep this patch if
> dropping it is inconvenient.

Bandan, I suggest you include the revert in your patchset
when it's ready then. Maybe post 2.5.

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MST