[libvirt] [PATCH] Reserve PCI addresses 3 and 4 on qemu-system-ppc

[Niels de Vos]

On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 5:12 PM, Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/07/2011 05:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Oh fun, it is actually worse than this. On PPC slot 1 is occupied by the
>> VGA adapter, while slot 2 is the IDE controller, so we'll need to make
>> some more complex changes here.
>>
>> We're gonna need to change this for every other arch too, in fact it looks
>> like it probably differs for each '-M' arg value too :-(
>>
>> I'm wondering whether we should just have a separate method for each combo
>> rather than trying to make one method do everything.
>
> Definitely sounds like the sort of thing where we need an arch-specific
> callback function that can report the correct reservation information
> for that architecture (similar to how we already have arch-specific
> callbacks for computing cpu features).

Okay, makes sense to me. Would extending "struct qemu_arch_info" in
src/qemu/qemu_capabilities.c be suitable enough?
We could add a function pointer that reserves some PCI-slots where
needed. Currently the table already supports different archs and
machines (machines seems NULL everywhere though).

Any objections if I have a look into adding this functionality there?
(Note, I don't have any no timeframe, it's purely hobby for me.)

Thanks,
Niels