Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] boot order specification

[Bernhard Kohl]

Am 26.10.2010 15:07, schrieb ext Gleb Natapov:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:40:51PM +0200, Bernhard Kohl wrote:
>    
> > Am 26.10.2010 12:48, schrieb ext Gleb Natapov:
> >      
> > > This is current sate of the patch series for people to comment on.
> > > I dropped ioport double reservation checking from isa-bus and added
> > > bus_id field for IDE bus since as Markus pointed out unit has different
> > > meaning there.
> > >
> > > This patch series produce names like:
> > >
> > > address@hidden,03f7/address@hidden
> > > address@hidden,03f7/address@hidden
> > > address@hidden:00:01.1/address@hidden:0
> > > address@hidden:00:01.1/address@hidden:1
> > > address@hidden:00:03.0/address@hidden
> > > address@hidden:00:04.0/address@hidden
> > >        
> > Are PCI pass-through devices (SR-IOV NICs) also supported?
> >      
> Don't see any problem. They are regular PCI devices as seen by
> guest, correct?

Yes, that's true. And we add a bootrom on the qemu command line.
But this is already working and would not be changed.

> So I expect path to them will look like this:
> address@hidden:00:04.0/address@hidden
>    

Yes, that would be fine. I assume that each boot NIC,
e.g. e1000 gets its name here.

>    
> > I assume that hw/device-assignment.c is missing from the changed files.
> > Our systems highly depend on PXE booting from these devices.
> >
> >      
> The patch is only an example. I converted only virtio-net to support
> bootindex ATM.
>
> --
>                         Gleb.
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