Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: qdev property bug?

[Anthony Liguori]

Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> Further, we should error out when device is added.
> Doing this during boot is way too late, management
> won't be able to understand such errors and
> won't be able to recover.
>   

I don't quite understand this.

In 0.11, we never loaded option roms unless a user specified -boot n.  
If a user specified -boot n and used more than one nic type, I'm fairly 
certain it would error out during start up because it would run out of 
option rom space.  Maybe it required three types of nics, but the point 
still remains.

In 0.12, we always load the option rom for a PCI device.  An easy 
solution here would be to just gracefully handle the case where we ran 
out of option rom space and (silently) stop loading additional roms.  
With respect to -boot n, it makes the behavior buggy (you cannot boot 
from the second nic) but my original point is that that is not a 
regression from 0.11.

For 0.13, we should probably allow a user to suppress option rom loading 
for a given PCI device.  The limited space is a pretty good 
justification for that.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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