Re: [Qemu-devel] [0.14?][PATCH 3/4] ioapic: Prepare for base address relocation

[Blue Swirl]

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> wrote:
> The registers of real IOAPICs can be relocated during runtime (via
> chipset registers). We don't support this yet, but qemu-kvm carries the
> current base address in its version 2 vmstate.
>
> To align both implementations for migratability, add the proper
> infrastructure to accept initial as well as updated base addresses and
> include the current address in the vmstate. This is done in a way that
> will also allow multiple IOAPICs in the future.

Nack, the addresses should be device properties.