Am 11.04.2014 07:41, schrieb Alistair Francis: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:48 PM, Alexander Graf <agraf@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 10.04.14 15:26, Peter Crosthwaite wrote: >>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 1:33 AM, Eric Auger <eric.auger@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> >>>> Initial attempts to convince QEMU to create a memory mapped device >>>> on the command line (e.g., -device vfio-platform,name=fff51000.ethernet) >>>> would fail with "Parameter 'driver' expects pluggable device type". >>> >>> Alistair is working on this. cc. >> >> Alaistair, I've had patches tackle this on the mailing list a few months ago >> and received good comments from Anthony on what to change. How far in are >> you already? I'd like to make sure we're on the same page here (and don't >> duplicate work). > > Hey Alex, > > I have a patch I'm about to send to the mailing list. It allows an > entire machine to be added by the -device argument on the command > line. It is a similar implementation to my first version (vl.c: Allow > sysbus devices to be attached via commandline), but much more generic. [...] > At the moment I > don't have much feedback to my implementation Your implementation came at a time where many of us were still busy contributing fixes to and testing the 2.0 release. Regards, Andreas -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer; HRB 16746 AG Nürnberg _______________________________________________ kvmarm mailing list kvmarm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.cs.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/kvmarm
