Re: Configuration vs. compat hints [was Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCHv3 03/13] qemu: add routines to manage PCI capabilities]

[Anthony Liguori]

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.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori