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From: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:43:55 +0000
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 4/9] PPC: Include dump of lspci -nn on real
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To: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 8:35 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>
> On 12.01.2010, at 21:16, Blue Swirl wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote:
>>> To ease debugging and to know what we're lacking, I found it really useful to
>>> have an lspci dump of a real U3 based G5 around. So I added a comment for it.
>>>
>>> If people don't think it's important enough to include this information in the
>>> sources, just don't apply this patch.
>>
>> I think it would be useful, but the right place would be in
>> ppc_newworld.c, because that is where the PCI bus is populated.
>
> Hum, that file is pretty cluttered already. How about we create a Documentation subdir in qemu that contains information about various devices?

Nobody reads documentation :) There's plenty of room near line 50,
that's where I have put references in other files.

>> For unin_pci.c, an interesting reference would be a link to the data sheet.
>
> I'm not aware of any. The only real specification I know of is for the U4.

Then U4 may be a more interesting machine to be implemented than U3,
at least if there are more documented devices or fewer critical
undocumented devices.