On 05/11/2016 10:51 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
On 05/10/2016 11:28 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
before creat
On 11/05/2016 17:19, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > If there's just one of its class you can use -global (similar to how we
> > use it for floppies).
>
> I don't like that there's no documentation for these
> at all. How are users supposed to know which type to use
> for -global?
Documentation, o
On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 05:09:56PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 11/05/2016 15:55, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > Could they "know" it by adding an iommu=foo argument to e.g. the PCI
> > > bridge, pointing to the IOMMU device?
> >
> > People don't create the pci host bridge though, it's
On 11/05/2016 15:55, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Could they "know" it by adding an iommu=foo argument to e.g. the PCI
> > bridge, pointing to the IOMMU device?
>
> People don't create the pci host bridge though, it's
> part of the default machine.
If there's just one of its class you can use
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 07:13:29PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> On 10/05/2016 17:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> >> > Can you explain why requiring the user to specify -device in a sane
> >> > order isn't good enough?
> > Because it requires knowledge about the hardware.
> > For example, how
Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
> On 05/10/2016 11:28 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
>>
>>> This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
>>> by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
>>> before creating them.
>>>
>>> Devices like IOMM
On 10/05/2016 17:36, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>> > Can you explain why requiring the user to specify -device in a sane
>> > order isn't good enough?
> Because it requires knowledge about the hardware.
> For example, how do users know that iommu must come before the devices?
> They don't.
Could
On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 10:28:43AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
>
> > This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
> > by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
> > before creating them.
> >
> > Devices like IOMMU need to be
On 05/10/2016 11:28 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
before creating them.
Devices like IOMMU need to be created before others, so they can le
Marcel Apfelbaum writes:
> This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
> by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
> before creating them.
>
> Devices like IOMMU need to be created before others, so they can leverage
> the DeviceCreationPriority flag in
This series aims to allow more devices to be used with '-device'
by sorting the devices based on a predefined creation order flag
before creating them.
Devices like IOMMU need to be created before others, so they can leverage
the DeviceCreationPriority flag introduced by the first patch to DeviceC
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