Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] docs: pcie: Spell out machine type needs for PCIe features

[Marcel Apfelbaum]

On 19/02/2018 18:31, Kashyap Chamarthy wrote:
> PCIe features are available only via the 'q35' machine type for x86 and
> the 'virt' machine type for AArch64 architecture.
> 
> Mention that explicitly.

Thanks for the improvement

Reviewed-by: Marcel Apfelbaum <address@hidden>

Thanks,
Marcel

> 
> Thanks: Daniel Berrangé
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <address@hidden>
> ---
>  docs/pcie.txt | 9 +++++++--
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/docs/pcie.txt b/docs/pcie.txt
> index 8d3694970e..89e3502075 100644
> --- a/docs/pcie.txt
> +++ b/docs/pcie.txt
> @@ -3,8 +3,13 @@ PCI EXPRESS GUIDELINES
>  
>  1. Introduction
>  ================
> -The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express/PCI device
> -in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind them.
> +The doc proposes best practices on how to use PCI Express (PCIe) / PCI
> +devices in PCI Express based machines and explains the reasoning behind
> +them.
> +
> +Note that the PCIe features are available only when using the 'q35'
> +machine type on x86 architecture and the 'virt' machine type on AArch64.
> +Other machine types do not use PCIe at this time.
>  
>  The following presentations accompany this document:
>   (1) Q35 overview.
>