Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 0/4] Machine config files

[Avi Kivity]

On 07/06/2009 05:40 PM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> It might make sense to integrate savevm callbacks into qdev, then 
> you'd have actually a chance to figure which driver belongs to your 
> piece of savevm state. 

That's my preference.  The very first pass iterates the device tree and 
serializes it.

> I suspect it isn't enougth to make it work though, you still need to 
> know the position of the device in the device tree.  To answer 
> questions like "is your pci device behind a bridge and if so which one?".

Isn't that info provided by qdev?  qdev will walk the pci bus, note 
there's a bridge, walk the bridged pci bus, note there's a usb 
controller, walk the usb bus, note there's a usb-scsi controller, walk 
the scsi bus, ... (ran out of steam).

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