On Wednesday 07 November 2007 16:40:13 Avi Kivity wrote: > Gregory Haskins wrote: > > but FWIW: This is a major motivation for the reason that the > > IOQ stuff I posted a while back used strings for device identification > > instead of a fixed length, centrally managed namespace like PCI > > vendor/dev-id. Then you can just name your device something reasonably > > unique (e.g. "qumranet::veth", or "ibm-pvirt-clock"). > > I dislike strings. They make it look as if you have a nice extensible > interface, where in reality you have a poorly documented interface which > leads to poor interoperability. Yes, you end up with exactly names like "qumranet::veth" and "ibm-pvirt-clock". I would recommend looking very hard at /proc, Open Firmware on a modern system, or the Xen store, to see what a lack of limitation can do to you :) > We will support non-pci for s390, but in order to support Windows and > older Linux PCI is necessary. The aim is that PCI support is clean, but that we're not really tied to PCI. I think we're getting closer with the recent config changes. Cheers, Rusty. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
