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| From: | Paolo Bonzini |
| Subject: | Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 0/3] qdev: order devices by priority before creating them |
| Date: | Tue, 10 May 2016 19:13:29 +0200 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 |
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 they "know" it by adding an iommu=foo argument to e.g. the PCI bridge, pointing to the IOMMU device? Paolo
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