Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make i82801b11 and ioh3420 x86 only by default

[David Gibson]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 08:57:39AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> 
> 
> On 18/02/2015 05:59, David Gibson wrote:
> > As PCI devices, the i82801b11 and ioh3420 devices could theoretically exist
> > on any platform with a PCI bus.  However in practice, they're Intel
> > specific devices,
> 
> They can be used as a generic PCIe root port and PCIe-to-PCI bridge,
> they're not Intel-specific as long as your firmware doesn't care about
> the vendor and device id.

Hm, ok.

> > that are very unlikely to appear on anything other than
> > an x86.  Therefore this patch gives them their own config options, enabled
> > only for x86 targets by default.
> 
> I think it's quite likely that we'll use them, or at least ioh3420, on
> any PCIe machine.  So you probably want to add ioh3420 to arm-softmmu
> and aarch64-softmmu as well.  I don't know about i82801b11, but it
> doesn't hurt to have it in ARM/AArch64 either.
> 
> Also, the same can be done for xio3130, so you can also limit that one
> to x86 and ARM/Aarch64.

Ok, I'll revise accordingly.

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