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From: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qdev: add -pcidevice command line option.
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:55:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A49C4FB.8070302@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A48D4F3.3030200@codemonkey.ws>

On 06/29/09 16:51, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Gerd Hoffmann wrote:

>> -pcidevice ES1370,addr=42 (replaces -audio es1370).
>> -pcidevice virtio-balloon-pci (replaces -balloon).
>> -pcidevice lsi53c895a,addr=23 (add scsi adapter in specified slot).
>> -pcidevice "PIIX3 USB-UHCI" (add second usb bus).

> What I would like to see is that this internal mechanism be used to
> implement the switches it replaces. That is, -balloon should just add
> just be a convenience option that expands to -pcidevice. The same for
> -audio.

Hmm, I was thinking about dropping the -balloon and -audio switches 
altogether.  Or do we need them for backward compatibility?

cheers,
   Gerd

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-29 14:37 [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH] qdev: add -pcidevice command line option Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-29 14:51 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-06-30  7:55   ` Gerd Hoffmann [this message]
2009-06-29 21:02 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-06-30  8:00   ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30  9:29     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-06-30 11:16 ` Paul Brook
2009-06-30 13:37   ` Markus Armbruster
2009-06-30 15:41     ` Gerd Hoffmann

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