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]. 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) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
