On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:09:00PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 03:36:14PM +0000, Ani Sinha wrote: > > > > > > > On Apr 17, 2020, at 8:57 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <m...@redhat.com> wrote: > > > > > > Is there a real reason to do this? Can't we just limit the > > > hotplug control to pcie ports? At some point I'd like us to > > > start leaving piix alone.. > > > > Yes we really need this feature as want to be able to hot plug devices into > > the guest but prevent customers from hot unplugging them from say Windows > > system tray. > > > > ani > > Problem is, I think this is not something we can support with pcie or shpc. > I'm reluctant to add features that only ACPI can support, > we are trying to phase that out.
>From the upstream POV, there's been no decision / agreement to phase out PIIX, this is purely a RHEL downstream decision & plan. If other distros / users have a different POV, and find the feature useful, we should accept the patch if it meets the normal QEMU patch requirements. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
