Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/3] q35: allow dynamic sysbus

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 06/08/2016 05:56 AM, Peter Xu wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 11:15:55PM +0300, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> > Allow adding sysbus devices with -device on Q35.
> >
> > At first Q35 will support only intel-iommu to be added this way,
> > however the command line will support all sysbus devices.
> >
> > Mark with 'cannot_instantiate_with_device_add_yet' the ones
> > causing immediate problems (e.g. crashes).
>
> What happens if we do dynamic device_add for IOMMU? Guessing we should
> not allow that as well?

Sure, hot-plug is not supported, at least for now.
I can think about a device that has an IOMMU built-in,
but this is not our use-case.

Thanks,
Marcel


> -- peterx