[libvirt] [Qemu-devel] [RFC 00/15] qmp: Report supported device types on 'query-machines'

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 11/24/2016 03:34 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com> writes:
>
>> On Wed, Nov 23, 2016 at 06:43:16PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
>>> On 11/22/2016 03:11 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>>> The Problem
>>

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> Our decision to have hybrid PCI/PCIe devices and buses breeds
> considerable complexity.  I wish we had avoided them, but I believe it's
> too late to change now.
>
>>> This still does not solve the problem that some devices makes
>>> sense only on a specific arch.
>

Hi Markus,

> Examples?
>

One quick example would be that we don't want to see
Intel's IOH 3420 PCIe Root Port in an ARM machine,
or a pxb on a Q35 machine (in this case we want pxb-pcie)

I do believe there are other examples, I'll try to think of more.

Thanks,
Marcel

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