Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH V6 for-2.3 00/26] hw/pc: implement multiple primary busses for pc machines

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 08:52:35PM +0200, Marcel Apfelbaum wrote:
> Notes:
>  - I realize that this qualifies as a late submission, but the code was 
> arround
>    a lot of time and got lots of reviews and it also tested (by Gerd), so 
> should be mature enough.
>  - This series is not that big, patches 1-8 are really small and can be 
> submitted
>    separately, however I preferred to keep them here to get the whole picture.

Sorry, I have agree with other maintainers here: this doesn't look
like 2.3 material to me, we are in a fixes only period now.

This doesn't mean I won't merge it though: this time around
I opened pci-next and will queue patches there, so no
extra effort on your side should be required.

> 
> The series is fully functional.
>  - Limitations:
>    - Pxb's bus does not support hotplug. It will be addressed on top of this 
> series
>      because is already getting to big.

Absolutely, and it's a reasonable thing to do normally, but not
when we are trying to finalize a release.
Looks like another reason to defer this to 2.4.

>  - You are more than welcome to try using:
>        -device pxb-device,id=pxb,bus_nr=4,numa_node=1 -device 
> e1000,bus=pxb,addr=0x1 -bios <patched with the above series>

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