Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 09:55 -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> Mark McLoughlin wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 20:27 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote: >>> >>> = Solution - Separate configuration from compat hints = >>> >>> As I suggested before: >>> >>> - Allow the VM manager to dump compat hints; this would be an opaque >>> file format, more like the savevm format than a config file >>> >>> >> How is compat hints different from a device tree? >> >> In my mind, that's what compat hints is. I don't see another sane way >> to implement it. >> > > A device tree with a different purpose than a config file. > > In its simplest form it could be a device tree with a version number for > each device[1]. >
I think the point is that you don't need version numbers if you have a proper device tree. NB the device tree contains no host configuration information. Regards, Anthony Liguori > The other obvious piece to add to it would be PCI addresses, so that > even if you remove a device, the addresses assigned to existing devices > don't change. > > Cheers, > Mark. > > [1] - Adding such a per-device version number to the config file would > solve problem (2) > > _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
