Re: [Qemu-devel] [0.14?][PATCH 3/4] ioapic: Prepare for base address relocation

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On 2011-02-03 18:03, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The registers of real IOAPICs can be relocated during runtime (via
>> chipset registers). We don't support this yet, but qemu-kvm carries the
>> current base address in its version 2 vmstate.
>>
>> To align both implementations for migratability, add the proper
>> infrastructure to accept initial as well as updated base addresses and
>> include the current address in the vmstate. This is done in a way that
>> will also allow multiple IOAPICs in the future.
> 
> Nack, the addresses should be device properties.

Hmm.... we could make default_base_address a property. Will change that.
But current_base_address is just the same as apicbase and can't be a
property.

Jan

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