From: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: mst@redhat.com, berrange@redhat.com, marcel@redhat.com,
Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: pcie: Spell out machine type needs for PCIe features
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:31:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180219163131.31153-1-kchamart@redhat.com> (raw)
PCIe features are available only via the 'q35' machine type for x86 and
the 'virt' machine type for AArch64 architecture.
Mention that explicitly.
Thanks: Daniel Berrangé
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
---
docs/pcie.txt | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/pcie.txt b/docs/pcie.txt
index 8d3694970e..89e3502075 100644
--- a/docs/pcie.txt
+++ b/docs/pcie.txt
@@ -3,8 +3,13 @@ PCI EXPRESS GUIDELINES
1. Introduction
================
-The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express/PCI device
-in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind them.
+The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express (PCIe) / PCI
+devices in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind
+them.
+
+Note that the PCIe features are available only when using the 'q35'
+machine type on x86 architecture and the 'virt' machine type on AArch64.
+Other machine types do not use PCIe at this time.
The following presentations accompany this document:
(1) Q35 overview.
--
2.13.6
next reply other threads:[~2018-02-19 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-19 16:31 Kashyap Chamarthy [this message]
2018-02-19 16:33 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: pcie: Spell out machine type needs for PCIe features Daniel P. Berrangé
2018-02-19 17:39 ` Marcel Apfelbaum
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