Am 18.06.2012 16:37, schrieb Michael S. Tsirkin:
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 09:22:43AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
On 06/18/2012 09:20 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:58:33PM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
So we need to fix our topological representation of platform devices
before we start adding more complex chipsets. Otherwise, we're
going to end up in a bad situation in the near future.
OTOH more in-tree examples especially for x86 will keep us
honest: help make sure abstractions make sense,
and prevent people from special casing piix because
this is the prevalent platform for kvm ATM.
Yes, more in-tree *correct* examples. I'm very much in favor of merging q35.
But is there a way to build a correct chipset right now?
Or is this blocked waiting for more infrastructure
to get merged?
The qom-next PULL (with QBus type) is out and Anthony has reviewed my
pci_host mini-series, those two would be good to have as groundwork.
Anything else (e.g., an LPCBus if needed) could be done in the q35
series IIUC.
Having q35 modeled with in-place initialization should probably not be a
hard requirement, relaxing the PCIBus availability issue.